Gender, Competitiveness, and Career Choices *
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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices∗
This document provides supplementary material to our paper “Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices”. Appendix I presents tables with additional results. This includes descriptive statistics of the control variables (A.I), a comparison of study tracks by gender in the national statistics and in our sample (A.II), the distribution of undergraduate major students by study track at the pre-univ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Quarterly Journal of Economics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0033-5533,1531-4650
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qju009