Calendrier du 08 novembre 2022
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 08/11/2022 de 17:00 à 18:00
R1-13
SINGH Manpreet (PSE)
Equilibrium in soft war of attrition
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 08/11/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
BONNEAU Cécile (PSE)
Competitive Educational Environment and Female Students’ Success:Evidence from the French Elite Scientific Higher Education
écrit avec Léa Dousset
Despite an increase in women’s educational attainment, they remain largely underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This selection between majors partly explains the gender pay gap, but little is known about the persistence and success of female students who decide to pursue STEM studies and careers. In this paper, we use a novel comprehensive administrative dataset on highly selective STEM programs in France to study the relative performance of male and female students’ in a real-life competitive scientific educational environment. Although they self-select more than male students to enter these selective STEM programs, we show that female students benefit less from the competitive environments created by the organization of these programs than their male counterparts. We find that a higher level of competitiveness reduces the chances of female students relative to male students to enter the most selective engineering schools by about 10 to 20 percent. We investigate potential mechanisms explaining this gap.