Increased efforts to diversify science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
education in the United States have drastically increased the number of studies offering …

Women are less likely than men to graduate with a degree in science, technology,
engineering, or math (STEM). We use detailed administrative data for a recent cohort of …

We investigate how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM
at college. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation …

The choice of college major is a key stage in the career search, and over a third of college
students switch majors at least once. We provide the first comprehensive analysis of major …

We study the effects of peer gender composition in STEM doctoral programs on persistence
and degree completion. Leveraging unique new data and quasi-random variation in gender …

We evaluate a pedagogical intervention aimed at improving learning in elementary school
children by fostering their curiosity. We test the effectiveness of the pedagogy using …

We use lab experiments and field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to show that women
are more likely than men to stop competing if they lose. In a math competition in the lab …

The purpose of this paper is to examine how social environment affects women's STEM
choices as early as high school. Using administrative data from China, we find that exposure …

The low number of baccalaureates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) is often viewed as problematic for the US's economic competitiveness, leading …

Abstract Background STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields are
in high demand for qualified personnel worldwide, yet drop-out rates of a career path in …