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Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models

This paper asks whether exposure to female role models may be an effective way to induce more
women to major in a male-dominated field.

Classroom Peer Effects, Effort, and Race

Develops a theoretical model of educational peer effects and then empiracally tests whether or not they exist.

Attrition in STEM Fields at a Liberal Arts College: The Importance of Grades and Pre-Collegiate Preferences

To quantify the important factors responsible for the high attrition rates in STEM majors, particularly in relation to gender.

Public School Choice and Integration: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina

Examines the impact of school choiceprograms on racial and class-based segregation across schools.

On the Determinants and Implications of School Choice: Comments Semi-Structural Simulations for Chile

Studies the effects of school choice on bothstudent welfare and socioeconomic segregation.

Private Schools and "Latino Flight" from Black School Children

How Latino flight affects the resulting racial composition of the public schools?

Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects

Proposes a general explanation for social background-related inequality.

The Organization of Students for Instruction in the Middle School

The structure of tracking systems and the process of assigning students to tracks for instruction at a critical point in schooling, the middle school.