Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 15,706
Cover Image
The effect of peer gender on major choice in business school
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2020
Business degrees are popular and lead to high earnings. Female business graduates, however, earn less than their male counterparts. These gender differences can be traced back to university, where women shy away from majors like finance that lead to high earnings. In this paper, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239613
Cover Image
The effect of peer gender on major choice
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - 2017
This paper investigates how the peer gender composition in university affects students' major choices and labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752332
Cover Image
Spillovers in fields of study : siblings, cousins, and neighbors
Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422440
Cover Image
The effect of higher-achieving peers on major choices and labor market outcomes
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520209
Cover Image
Spillovers in fields of study : siblings, cousins, and neighbors
Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2023
We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014365276
Cover Image
Spillovers in fields of study: siblings, cousins, and neighbors
Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2023 - This version: September 2023
We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380755
Cover Image
Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?
Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016
There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450111
Cover Image
Exposure to more female peers widens the gender gap in STEM participation
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064241
Cover Image
Exposure to more female peers widens the gender gap in STEM participation
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102066
Cover Image
Do migrant students affect local students' academic achievements in urban China?
Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming; Smyth, Russell - 2017
We examine the educational spillover effects of migrant students on local students' academic achievement in public … migrant students across classes within schools. We find that the proportion of migrant students in each class has a small, and … positive, effect on local students' test scores in Chinese, but has no significant effect on math and English test scores. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120537