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Direct linkCalkins, 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
Peer reviewedStuder-Ellis, Erich M. – Social Forces, 1995
Examination of foundings of four-year women's colleges in three states, 1855-1968, reveals that institutional forces (presence of elite women's colleges, development of Catholic women's colleges, and enactment of the suffrage amendment) increased the founding rate, but rising organizational density later decreased the rate. Argues that…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Environment, Competition, Educational Development
