¿No soy buena en esto o no soy buena en lo absoluto?: brechas de género en la educación superior STEM

I study the heterogeneous gender effect of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) career enrollment on college completion, career switch, and dropout rates. For this purpose, I leverage administrative data on Colombian high school graduates from 2006 to 2015. Moreover, I use a multi-stage discrete choice model where individuals: (i) decide if enroll in college or not, (ii) conditional on enrolling, choose an initial career, (iii) decide if graduate, switch program or dropout from college; being the only work that, to the best of my knowledge, models the college enrollment decision. Results suggest that enrolling in a STEM career reduces college completion rates for all students and increases career switch (mainly for men) and dropout rates (mainly for women). My results bring relevant information for policy recommendations based on exposure to female role models to retain STEM students through self-efficacy boosting.

• Autores: Pérez López, Diana Katherine
• Fecha de publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/50881
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/50881
• Palabra clave: Educación superior; Educación en Ciencia, Tecnología, Ingeniería y Matemáticas; Estudios de género; Economía
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/