Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models
Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models
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专业选择的性别差异：女性榜样的重要性
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2020
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通讯作者：
Danila Serra
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C. Porter;Danila Serra
我们进行了一项实地试验，旨在增加主修经济学的妇女的比例。我们让参加入门课程的学生接触同一所大学经济学专业的成功和有魅力的女性。这一干预措施极大地影响了女生继续学习经济学课程的人数，使她们主修经济学的可能性增加了8个百分点。这是一个很大的影响，因为只有9%的女性在基线时主修经济学。由于受影响的妇女以前计划主修低收入领域，我们的低成本干预可能会对她们未来的收入产生积极影响。(JEL A22、C93、I23、I26、J16）
We conducted a field experiment aimed at increasing the percentage of women majoring in economics. We exposed students enrolled in introductory classes to successful and charismatic women who majored in economics at the same university. The intervention significantly impacted female students’ enrollment in further economics classes, increasing their likelihood to major in economics by 8 percentage points. This is a large effect, given that only 9 percent of women were majoring in economics at baseline. Since the impacted women were previously planning to major in lower-earning fields, our low-cost intervention may have a positive effect on their future incomes. (JEL A22, C93, I23, I26, J16)