Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation
Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation
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接触更多女性同伴扩大了 STEM 参与中的性别差距
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
U. Zölitz
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作者：
A. Brenøe;U. Zölitz
我们调查了高中性别构成如何影响学生在大学参与STEM。使用丹麦的行政数据，我们利用特质在学校内的性别组成的变化。我们发现，有一个更大比例的女性同龄人降低了妇女的入学和从STEM项目毕业的概率。男性的STEM参与率随着女性同行的增加而增加。从长远来看，接触更多女性同龄人的女性不太可能从事STEM职业，收入更少，生更多孩子。我们的研究结果表明，学校同伴环境对职业分类，性别工资差距和生育率有持久的影响。
We investigate how high school gender composition affects students’ participation in STEM at college. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a larger proportion of female peers reduces women’s probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men’s STEM participation increases with more female peers present. In the long run, women exposed to more female peers are less likely to work in STEM occupations, earn less, and have more children. Our findings show that the school peer environment has lasting effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility.