Search Results - subject:"Field of study"

Gender pay gaps across STEM fields of study

Zając, Tomasz; Magda, Iga; Bożykowski, Marek; … - 2023

Gender pay gaps in earnings are well-documented in the literature. However, new factors contributing to women's lower earnings have emerged and remain under-researched. Educational choices are among them. We use a rich administrative dataset from Poland, a Central Eastern European country with...

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Field of study and mental health in adulthood

Stenberg, Anders; Tudor, Simona - 2023

We analyze whether field of study assigned at age 16 impacts mental health in adulthood. Using a regression …

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University fees, subsidies and field of study

Yong, Maxwell; Coelli, Michael; Kabátek, Jan - 2023

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Returns to higher education by field of study in Thailand : comparative analysis of pre and post-COVID-19 pandemic

Jirakom Sirisrisakulchai; Supanika Leurcharusmee - In: Asian journal of economics and banking : AJEB 9 (2025) 1, pp. 2-21

uniquely applies an econometric causal framework to analyze returns to higher education by field of study in Thailand. It …

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Peer influence in educational choices : social image concerns and same-gender interactions

Carlana, Michela; Corno, Lucia - 2025

Adolescents' educational choices are shaped by their peers. Using administrative data covering the entire population of Italian middle school students, we show that exposure to high-achieving male peers in math reduces the likelihood that girls choose a scientific high school track. To...

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Preferred field of study and academic performance

Berlingieri, Francesco; Diegmann, André; Sprietsma, Maresa - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2022

on variation in the local field of study availability, we provide evidence that students who are not enrolled in their … preferred field of study are more likely to change their field, delay graduation and drop out of university. The estimated …This paper investigates the impact of studying the first-choice university subject on dropout and switching field of …

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Preferred field of study and academic performance

Berlingieri, Francesco; Diegmann, André; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2022

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Clustered local average treatment effects : fields of study and academic student progress

Nibbering, Didier; Oosterveen, Matthijs; Silva, Pedro Luis - 2022

Multiple unordered treatments with a binary instrument for each treatment are common in policy evaluation. This multiple treatment setting allows for different types of changes in treatment status that are non-compliant with the activated instrument. Therefore, instrumental variable (IV) methods...

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Assortative preferences in choice of major

Aydede, Yigit - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-25

2011 National Household Survey from Canada, the results show that children's choice of field of study exhibits significant …

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Gender Differences in Graduate Degree Choices

Delaney, Judith M.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2024

While gender differences in the decision of what to study at undergraduate level are much studied, there is relatively little attention paid to subsequent study decisions of graduates. Given the increased importance of graduate education in recent decades, these decisions can have major labour...

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