best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find that students enter college as open to a major in math or … science as to any other major group, but that a large number of students move away from math and science after realizing that … because students realize that their ability in math/science is lower than expected rather than because students realize that …

, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using … newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the …, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of …

-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and …

science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between … students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects). However, the evidence on whether these interactions actually … matter is limited and contradictory. In this study, I present new empirical evidence on whether assignment to a same-gender …

quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented …In the second part of the paper, we relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. Using data on students …' perceptions about the demand side of the labor market--beliefs about expected attributes of jobs students anticipate being offered …

. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender … the 1980s, widened during the 1990s after the US Supreme Court's decision in Croson but then narrowed again since 2000 …

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …

Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …