and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market … academic performance and their labor market income. We leverage the fact that the composition of high school classmates (peers …

, 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 …

In Sweden, females outperform males on compulsory and high school GPAs by a third of a standard deviation, while males …