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Calkins, Avery; Binder, Ariel J.; Shaat, Dana; Timpe, Brenden – RAND Corporation, 2020
We leverage variation in the timing of women's colleges' transitions to coeducation throughout the 1960s-2000s to study how exposure to a gendered social environment affects women's human capital investments. Applying event study and synthetic control analyses to newly collected historical data, we find that the share of women majoring in STEM at…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Coeducation, Majors (Students), Females
Witty, Emily Amie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Gender differences in mathematics have been of particular interest over the past decades. Research has shown a disparity in mathematical proficiency between boys and girls depending on the area of mathematics tested, the age and grade of the student, and the structure of the test question (i.e., how the question is posed). Although, much of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Gender Differences, Grade 4, Grade 8