This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies …. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that … having a larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

Using the historical random assignment of MBA students to peer groups at a top business school in the United States, I … on women's long-term earnings grow even larger with time. Using novel data on job offers, I find that two different … mechanisms drive the effects on short- and long-term earnings. Women with a greater share of male peers take more quantitative …

evidence that women who have been exposed to higher achieving male peers end up in jobs in which they are more satisfied. …

evidence that women who have been exposed to higher achieving male peers end up in jobs in which they are more satisfied …

using the within-classroom ranking of the ratio of early-high school performance in STEM over non-STEM subjects. We find … to choose a STEM school track and apply to a STEM degree. Comparative STEM advantage appears irrelevant for males. Our …

. Training is potentially important in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after … completing high school …

in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after completing high school, but …

end of high school. Lucky students take exams in subjects they are better at, and we show that this generates significant … improvements in both their high school GPA and diploma probability. Subsequently, exam luck generates substantial and persistent …