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and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …
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This paper demonstrates that short-term peer exposure can generate achievement effects which persist for several months and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and exploit the random assignment of students to freshmen teams. I find that the freshmen week...
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the gender of the student. The identification strategy is based on quasi-random variation in the exposure to HP peers … particular with peers of the same gender. Moreover, there is evidence that the exposure to HP males can be even negative …
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This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
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' programming skills and on their awareness of gender differences in the workforce. However, it did not seem to affect girls …' aspirations to pursue higher education in STEM-related disciplines. The gender stereotypes children are exposed to from a very …
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Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to college life, yet causal evidence on the impact of such programs, and the factors that influence...
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We study gender differences in decision-making strategy when applying for college using applications data for all … examine how the college choices of equally achieving students differ by gender. We find that female students better balance … for a particular college. When we investigate how effects differ across the achievement distribution, we find that gender …
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gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of …, thereby raising the gender gap. …
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Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major … confounding unobserved characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that might be correlated with peer gender composition, we …
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Much research has shown that having a better class of degree has significant payoff in the labour market. Using administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post-primary school achievement is an important predictor: Its...
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