题目：Gender Minority and Education Persistence: Evidence from A Randomized Experiment
主讲人：单晓月，苏黎世大学
时间：2020年5月11日，15:00-16:30
举办方式：线上讲座
主讲人简介：
Xiaoyue Shan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics, University of Zurich. Her research focuses on education, gender, and behavioral economics. She received an MA in Economics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2016, and a BA in Economics from Renmin University of China in 2014.
Abstract：
This paper studies the impact of gender minority on women's education persistence at university. I conduct a field experiment in a large introductory Economics course where I randomly assign students to study groups. Results show that women assigned to male-dominated groups are more likely to drop out than other women by 10 percentage points. I present evidence for education expectation and peer interaction as underlying mechanisms. Being the minority gender in a group reduces women's education expectation and their interaction with assigned peers by over 40% standard deviations. Heterogeneous analysis shows that the effects are driven by women with high ability and socially female traits.
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