restricting female students in specific college majors changes the size and skill distribution of high school graduates. We find … are more likely to participate in the labor market and have a job. Third, the gender wage gap decreases among high …

We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N … treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from i) perceived gender differences in productivity, ii) beliefs about … there is no gender gap in productivity. To test ii), we inform the candidates about the hiring rule ex-ante, allowing us to …