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Women in STEM: Ability, preference, and value
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The authors studied the determinants of the gender gap in college major choice and job choice between STEM and non-STEM fields and quantifies how much the gender wage gap can be explained by these choices using an extended Roy Model.About:
This article is published in Labour Economics.The article was published on 2021-06-01. It has received 24 citations till now.read more
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WOMEN and STEM
TL;DR: The Faculty Speaker Series organized by Jenessa Shapiro, Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at UCLA, in Conjunction with UCLA's Center for the Study of Women as discussed by the authors, has invited scholars to discuss the issues surrounding women and STEM.
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Female Science Advisors and the STEM Gender Gap
Serena Canaan,Pierre Mouganie +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that being matched to a female rather than a male science advisor substantially narrows the gender gap in STEM enrollment and graduation, with the strongest effects occurring among students who are highly skilled in math.
Things Versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences
Andreas Kuhn,Stefan C. Wolter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors used cognitive requirements in 130 learnable occupations in the Swiss apprenticeship system to describe the broad job content in these occupations along the things-versus-people dimension.
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Bye bye Ms. American Sci: Women and the leaky STEM pipeline
TL;DR: In this article , the authors provide a detailed analysis of the STEM pipeline from high school to mid-career in the United States, decomposing the gender gap in STEM into six stages.
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Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment
Brad M. Barber,Terrance Odean +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that men trade 45 percent more than women and earn annual risk-adjusted net returns that are 1.4 percent less than those earned by women, while women perform worse than men.
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Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment
Brad M. Barber,Terrance Odean +1 more
TL;DR: Theoretical models predict that overconedent investors trade excessively as mentioned in this paper, and they test this prediction by partitioning investors on gender by analyzing the common stock investments of men and women from February 1991 through January 1997.
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Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants
TL;DR: This article analyzed the way in which the immigrant population may be expected to differ from the earnings of the native population because of the endogeneity of the migration decision and showed that differences in the U.S. earnings of immigrants with the same measured skills, but from different home countries, are attributable to variations in conditions in the country of origin at the time of migration.
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Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present experimental evidence in support of an additional factor: women may be less effective than men in competitive environments, even if they are able to perform similarly in non-competitive environments.
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