| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23735 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23735 |
| Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men? | |
| Adriana D. Kugler; Catherine H. Tinsley; Olga Ukhaneva | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-08-28 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Recent work suggests that women are more responsive to negative feedback than men in certain environments. We examine whether negative feedback in the form of relatively low grades in major-related classes explains gender differences in the final majors undergraduates choose. We use unique administrative data from a large private university on the East Coast from 2009-2016 to test whether women are more sensitive to grades than men, and whether the gender composition of major-related classes affects major changes. We also control for other factors that may affect a student's final major including: high school student performance, gender of faculty, and economic returns of majors. Finally, we examine how students' decisions are affected by external cues that signal STEM fields as masculine. The results show that high school academic preparation, faculty gender composition, and major returns have little effect on major switching behaviors, and that women and men are equally likely to change their major in response to poor grades in major-related courses. Moreover, women in male-dominated majors do not exhibit different patterns of switching behaviors relative to their male colleagues. Women are, however, more likely to switch out of male-dominated STEM majors in response to poor performance compared to men. Therefore, we find that it takes multiple signals of lack of fit into a major (low grades, gender composition of class, and external stereotyping signals) to impel female students to switch majors. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23735 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581408 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Adriana D. Kugler,Catherine H. Tinsley,Olga Ukhaneva. Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?. 2017. |
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| w23735.pdf（373KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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