This paper investigates how exposure to higher-achieving male and female peers in university affects students’ major … choices and labor market outcomes. For identification of causal effects, we exploit the random assignment of students to …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …

, 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 … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

preference measures from Facebook data. Using a field experiment among university students, chapter 4 shows that the ordering in … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is … reveal that within-gender peer effects have approximately twice the influence of cross-gender peer effects on wages for both … characterized by greater gender equality. …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

relative earnings of female students at graduation, closing the gender gap in earnings at graduation by two-thirds. The effects …Using the historical random assignment of MBA students to peer groups at a top business school in the United States, I … study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor …

-selection into taking the SAT. Our findings imply large effects of the choice of university admission criterion on admitted students …