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What Can UWE Do for Economics?

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  • Tatyana Avilova
  • Claudia Goldin

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Men outnumber women as undergraduate economics majors by three to one nationwide. Even at the best research universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one or more. The Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge was begun in 2015 as an RCT with 20 treatment schools and at least 30 control schools to evaluate whether better course information, mentoring, encouragement, career counseling, and more relevant instructional content could move the needle. Although the RCT is still in the field, results from several within treatment-school randomized trials demonstrate that uncomplicated and inexpensive interventions can substantially increase the interest of women to major in economics.

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  • Tatyana Avilova & Claudia Goldin, 2018. "What Can UWE Do for Economics?," NBER Working Papers 24189, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:24189
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    • A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics
    • A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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