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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...
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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 …
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Spillovers in fields of study : siblings, cousins, and neighbors
Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2023
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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 …
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The effect of peer gender on major choice in business school
Zölitz, Ulf; Feld, Jan - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 67 (2021) 11, pp. 6963-6979
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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...
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The effect of higher-achieving peers on major choices and labor market outcomes
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 196 (2022), pp. 200-219
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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
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Do girl peers improve your academic performance?
Hu, Feng - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 54-58
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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 …
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