Ballard, Charles; Johnson, Marianne - In: Feminist Economics 11 (2005) 1, pp. 95-122
Previous studies have documented a gender gap in the study of economics in Canada, the UK, and the US. One important … factor may be women's low expectations about their ability to succeed in economics courses. Women in our sample expect to do … school actually has a negative effect on performance. We observe this negative effect for women and men, but it is more …