When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effects of Coeducation on Women's College Major Choices

Avery Calkins, Ariel Binder, Dana Shaat and Brenden Timpe

No 5374q_v1, SocArXiv from Center for Open Science

Abstract: We leverage variation in the adoption of coeducation by U.S. women’s colleges to study how exposure to a mixed-gender collegiate environment affects women’s human capital investments. Our event-study analyses of newly collected historical data find a 3.0-3.5 percentage-point (30-33%) decline in the share of women majoring in STEM. While coeducation caused a large influx of male peers and modest increase in male faculty, we find no evidence that it altered the composition of the female student body or other gender-neutral inputs. Extrapolation of our main estimate suggests that coeducational environments explain 36% of the current gender gap in STEM.

Date: 2022-06-16
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DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/5374q_v1

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