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In this study, we analyze whether the gender of a student’s siblings affects the choice of college major. A family with … same-gender siblings may encourage academic choices that are less gender stereotyped. We use a unique dataset covering 30 … academic careers from high school to college graduation. We find that mixed-gender siblings tend to choose college majors …
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and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …
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, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …
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In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
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In this paper we analyze whether the gender composition of classmates in high school affects the choice of college …-major by shifting it towards those majors preferred by the prevalent gender in the class. We use a novel dataset of 30 … exploit the fact that the gender composition of the graduating high school class, from one year to the next, within School …
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In this paper we analyze whether the gender composition of classmates in high school affects the choice of college …-major by shifting it towards those majors preferred by the prevalent gender in the class. We use a novel dataset of 30 … exploit the fact that the gender composition of the graduating high school class, from one year to the next, within School …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087876
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
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We investigate the existence of wage premium due to cultural diversity across US cities. Using census data from 1970 to 1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for white US-born males. We measure cultural diversity in...
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