College Major Choice and the Gender Gap

By basit. zafar. The Journal of human resources, 2013

157 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Gender Studies

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f3faf8e3206aa7d8609c4bfc2512b682777e4e6e

Citations in the corpus

• Survey Measurement of Probabilistic Macroeconomic Expectations: Progress and Promise (2017, unknown): “Zafar (2013) and Wiswall and Zafar (2015) surveyed college students regarding their choice of major, elicited expectations for the monetary and nonmonetary returns to alternative majors, and combined the expectations and choice date to estimate 430 Manski random utility models of choice of major.”
• Gender segregation in higher education: an empirical test of seven explanations (2019, unknown): “In particular, women may opt for less lucrative fields because they are more familycentered and thus attach lower value to prestige, earnings, and career prospects, while they place a higher value on family conciliation and expressive motives, such as self-realization and social utility (Cattaneo et”
• How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign (2013, unknown): “4For recent examples in economics, see Dominitz and Manski (1996); Manski (2004); Blass et al. (2010); and Zafar (2009).”