Arbeitspapier

Gender Role Models and Early Career Decisions

This paper analyzes the link between the subject choices of German students in upper secondary school and teacher gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and they indicate that girls respond more strongly than boys to same-sex role models. While the probability to choose German as an advanced course in upper secondary school increases to a rather similar (i.e., symmetric) extent for both girls and boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to choosing math on the advanced level.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14666

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
gender
education
STEM
subject choices

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Löwe, Monique
Rinne, Ulf
Sonnabend, Hendrik
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Löwe, Monique
  • Rinne, Ulf
  • Sonnabend, Hendrik
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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