Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?
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- Adriana D. Kugler & Catherine H. Tinsley & Olga Ukhaneva, 2017. "Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?," NBER Working Papers 23735, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
education gender gap; major choice; STEM field;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2017-09-03 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2017-09-03 (Education)
- NEP-GEN-2017-09-03 (Gender)
- NEP-URE-2017-09-03 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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