– The results show that the reform increased university enrollment rates for both genders.
-The reform increased students’ willingness to enroll at university for males and females alike. The reform effect of university enrollment can be assessed as meaningful with 1.3 and 1.2 percentage points for females and males, respectively.
– With regard to choosing STEM as college major, the authors find a
robust positive effect of the high school curriculum reform on males.
– While the results for males indicate that the reform made them more like to choose a STEM major on a statistically significant level, this is not true for females.
– A likely mechanism for the gender difference in major choices is the underlying preferences of men and women.
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The effects of a high school curriculum reform on university enrollment and the choice of college major
College Admissions Viewbooks and the Grammar of Gender, Race, and STEM
This study aims to critically examine representations of gender, race, and STEM in college admissions viewbooks.