-doctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students through a novel survey and randomize the …-academic careers. One year later, both treatments lead students to update their beliefs about the academic market and impact career … preferences. However, we do not find an effect on actual career outcomes 2 years post-intervention. …

-representation of women in science and engineering faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of same …We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students … and their propensity to stay in academic science. Our analysis is based on an original dataset covering nearly 20,000 PhD …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …

other fields once women's relatively high exit rates from male fields generally are taken into account. -- science and …I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering …

the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent …

Our model explains the observed gender-specific patterns of career and child care choices through endogenous social … and career choices impose an externality on other couples, so that the laissez-faire is inefficient. We use our model to … study the design and effectiveness of three commonly used policies. We find that child care subsidies and women quotas can …

extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study … within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the … women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …

percent over the course of an average career as compared to a small birth cohort counterpart. The loss in earnings is driven … would suggest. Second, career effects differ by relative age. Those born in early calendar months (January to April) are …