Girls Helping Girls: The Impact of Female Peers on Grades and Educational Choices

Arbeitspapier

We use idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within Norwegian lower-secondary schools to analyze the impact of female peers on students' grades and choices of STEM subjects. We find that more female peers in lower secondary increases girls' probability of choosing STEM-courses in upper secondary, and the effect on choices is larger than the effect on grades. Survey evidence suggests that a potential mechanism is an improved classroom environment. Boys' performance is negatively affected by more female peers. They also start upper secondary later and more often choose vocational studies.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10586

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
• Thema: gender ; education ; peer effects

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schone, Pal ; von Simson, Kristine ; Strom, Marte
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161209
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ