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2 Dec 2022

The choice of the task is the key outcome of interest in the experiment and reflects the subject in which students believe they are better, either math or literature. [...] Looking at the data from our experiment (Panel B), we find that 53% of the students choose the task in math (43% of girls and 63% of boys), 47% think their mothers would recommend the task in math (43% of girls and 50% of boys), and 63% think their fathers would recommend the task in math (61% of girls and 67% of boys). [...] [Insert Table II] In the following columns of Table II, we provide evidence on the correlation between the choice of math in the experiment and important life outcomes for the individual. [...] Restrict- ing the analysis to the sample of students whose parents completed the survey, we find that the perception of students is highly correlated with actual parental recommendation of both mothers and fathers, even when controlling for the comparative advantage in the subject and other students’ controls (columns 5 and 6).14 fixed effects does not significantly affect the gender gap in the fi. [...] In our survey, we elicit the beliefs of students regarding the choice of the task of their classmates: 49% of girls (48% of boys) expect that more boys will choose math as their comparative advan- tage and 14% of girls (16% of boys) believe that the composition will be equal, while the rest (37% of girls and 36% of boys) believes that boys will be a minority among those who choose math as their co.
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