This study investigates the impact of single-sex versus coeducational schooling on students' decisions to pursue STEM … school type choosing a STEM major and their weighted average marks for each year of university studies. Contrary to … expectations, we find no evidence that a single-sex high school background increases STEM participation among girls at the …

the gender of the student. The identification strategy is based on quasi-random variation in the exposure to HP peers … particular with peers of the same gender. Moreover, there is evidence that the exposure to HP males can be even negative …, especially for female students in competitive environments, such as the STEM fields, and for low ability students of both genders. …

In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly …

for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from …

This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of gender congruence in the student-adviser relationship on … randomness in whether a student has a same-gender faculty adviser. First, we find that gender congruence in the student …-adviser relationship has a positive and significant effect on the odds of retention (gender congruence effect on the extensive margin) and …

gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of …, thereby raising the gender gap. …