Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we … investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with … the market price of the object under consideration. Our estimation results suggest that economics students have both, a …

and earnings for the students who are induced to choose Math after being exposed to the pilot scheme. The effect partly … stems from the fact that these students end up with higher education …

-generation students and first-generation students who migrated before starting primary education. Second, we instrument the parental …

federal states on the share of male and female students who complete degrees in STEM subjects and who later work in STEM … occupations. The reform had two important aspects: (i) it equalized all students' exposure to math by making advanced math … instruction in math and the natural sciences for some 80 percent of students, more so for females than for males. Our results …

We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …

We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both … are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are …

Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD … countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to underperform with respect to boys. This paper …

and the gender test score gap in mathematics. We employ a novel two-stage empirical strategy in which the first stage … involves decomposing the gender mathematics gap into a part that is explained by gender differences in observable …