This paper asks whether exposure to female role models may be an effective way to induce more
women to major in a male-dominated field.
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Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models
Classroom Peer Effects, Effort, and Race
Develops a theoretical model of educational peer effects and then empiracally tests whether or not they exist.
Attrition in STEM Fields at a Liberal Arts College: The Importance of Grades and Pre-Collegiate Preferences
To quantify the important factors responsible for the high attrition rates in STEM majors, particularly in relation to gender.
On the Determinants and Implications of School Choice: Comments Semi-Structural Simulations for Chile
Studies the effects of school choice on bothstudent welfare and socioeconomic segregation.
Private Schools and "Latino Flight" from Black School Children
How Latino flight affects the resulting racial composition of the public schools?
The Organization of Students for Instruction in the Middle School
The structure of tracking systems and the process of assigning students to tracks for instruction at a critical point in schooling, the middle school.