A University-Wide Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job Entry Decisions

Author(s):  
Anya Savikhin Samek
Author(s):  
Sule Alan ◽  
Seda Ertac ◽  
Elif Kubilay ◽  
Gyongyi Loranth

Abstract Using data from a large-scale field experiment, we show that while there is no gender difference in the willingness to make risky decisions on behalf of a group in a sample of children, a large gap emerges in a sample of adolescents. The proportion of girls who exhibit leadership willingness drops by 39% going from childhood to adolescence. We explore the possible factors behind this drop and find that it is largely associated with a dramatic decline in “social confidence”, measured by the willingness to perform a real effort task in public.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Castillo ◽  
Ragan Petrie ◽  
Máximo Torero ◽  
Lise Vesterlund

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Porter ◽  
Danila Serra

We conducted a field experiment aimed at increasing the percentage of women majoring in economics. We exposed students enrolled in introductory classes to successful and charismatic women who majored in economics at the same university. The intervention significantly impacted female students’ enrollment in further economics classes, increasing their likelihood to major in economics by 8 percentage points. This is a large effect, given that only 9 percent of women were majoring in economics at baseline. Since the impacted women were previously planning to major in lower-earning fields, our low-cost intervention may have a positive effect on their future incomes. (JEL A22, C93, I23, I26, J16)


2013 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 35-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Castillo ◽  
Ragan Petrie ◽  
Maximo Torero ◽  
Lise Vesterlund

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