achievement of 935 high school students from ten high schools in two Australian capital cities (Brisbane and Perth). It was … achievement of high school students, self-regulatory efficacy and delinquency would have a negative impact. More specifically, we …

role models on female preferences for STEM majors. We conduct a randomized control trial where female senior students … selected high schools. We find that exposure to this treatment increases high ability female students' preferences for … engineering programs by 14 percentage points. The effect is only statistically significant for the subgroup of female students …

a higher share of female classmates on students' disruptive behavior, engagement, test scores, and major choices in … disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged schools. We exploit the random assignment of students to classrooms in early high school in … students that contains a large and diverse set of school qualities, and household incomes, and b) we measure disruption and …