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 …-representation of women in science and engineering faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of same-gender …

happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …

Although recent evidence suggests that the aggregate gender gap in access to Higher Education in Peru has been closed … behind these gender differences in access to Higher Education. Specifically, we assess whether larger socioeconomic … also provide strong evidence of gender-specific short-term barriers in access to post-secondary schooling: while …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky … gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using detailed register data on the latest cohorts … of Danish labour market entrants, this paper examines the intergenerational correlation in gender-stereotypical choice of …

engineering and computer science, which was partly counteracted by a negative effect for math and physics. …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for … in Turkey. -- returns to education ; Mincer equation ; gender ; Palestine ; Turkey …

Twitter. Specifically, we created fictitious bot accounts that resembled humans and claimed to be PhD students in economics …. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …

underrepresentation of women and girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in Italy by stimulating young … female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields …' programming skills and on their awareness of gender differences in the workforce. However, it did not seem to affect girls …