Do single-sex schools make girls less interested in predominantly male majors?

• 영문명: Do single-sex schools make girls less interested in predominantly male majors?
• 발행기관: 서울대학교 경제연구소
• 저자명: 감지혜 Yuseob Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『Seoul Journal of Economics』Volume 36 No.4, 289~424쪽, 전체 136쪽
• 주제분류: 경제경영 > 경제학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.11.30

영문 초록

This study estimates the impact of single-sex schooling on the gender gap in students’ choice of college major. Potential endogeneity concerns are mitigated by homogeneous application behavior under the Boston mechanism-type assignment into high schools and college-major-specific admissions policies in South Korea. Single-sex schooling is found to widen the gender gap in the choice of predominantly male majors by attracting girls to genderbalanced majors and boys to predominantly male majors. Recruiting more male mathematics and science teachers, while maintaining the share of female teachers at a certain level, could encourage girls in single-sex schools to pursue predominantly male majors.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Institutional background

III. Data and empirical framework

IV. Results

V. Concluding remarks

References

키워드

College major choice Gender gap Single-sex schools Teacher gender