Domestic Labour Involvement of Young Taiwanese Couples in Different Partnership and Parenthood Statuses

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks · 2023

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Psychology

Can Positive Feedback Encourage Female and Minority Undergraduates into Economics?

AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2021 · 21 citations

• Psychology
• Economics
• Mathematics education

In a field experiment designed to encourage undergraduate women and underrepresented minority students to study economics, we send personalized letters to students completing introductory economics classes inviting them to an informational meeting. A random sample of high-achieving students receives letters that also praise their performance and encourage them to persist in economics. Receiving this "nudge" increases the probability of informational meeting attendance and increases the number of women entering the economics and accounting major and of men entering the economics major. There is a substantial increase in the number of treated Hispanic students, particularly women, who choose economics and accounting.

Educational gender gaps

Southern Economic Journal · 2020 · 52 citations

• Psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Demographic economics

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education-underachievement in school by boys and low rates of participation in STEM studies by girls. Recent economics research has shown the importance of social influences on women's STEM avoidance, but male low achievement has been less-studied and tends to be attributed to behavior problems and deficient non-cognitive skills. I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender differences, particularly in the transition to college. Educational aspirations, on the other hand, are strongly predictive of educational gaps and the gender difference in aspirations cannot be explained, even with rich adolescent data that includes parental expectations and school achievement indicators. These results suggest that gender identity concerns may influence (and damage) the educational prospects of boys as well as girls through norms of masculinity that discourage academic achievement.

Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage.

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 2020 · 30 citations

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Psychology