| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP16582
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| DP16582 Parents and Peers: Gender Stereotypes in the Field of Study |
| Lucia Corno; Michela Carlana
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| 发表日期 | 2021-09-27
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| 出版年 | 2021
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Gender segregation in the field of study is still a pervasive phenomenon in many countries. In this paper, we highlight the crucial role of parents and peers in adolescents’ decision making on their educational choices, leading to a mismatch of talents. We design a lab-in-the-field experiment that exposes 2,500 middle school students in Italy to different information treatments before they choose between a female-typed task (literature) and a male-typed task (math). We find that students choose a more gender-stereotypical subject (girls choose more literature and boys choose more math) when they are induced to think about the recommendation of same-gender parents. The effect is driven by girls who expect literature as a recommendation from their mothers and boys who expect math as a recommendation from their fathers. The field choice of male and female students is not affected when they expect their peers to observe their decision. However, we show
that girls shy away from math to avoid interactions in male-dominated contexts. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
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| 关键词 | Gender stereotypes
Parents
Peers
Field of study
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16582
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545531
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推荐引用方式
GB/T 7714 |
Lucia Corno,Michela Carlana. DP16582 Parents and Peers: Gender Stereotypes in the Field of Study. 2021.
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