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DP18936: The Gender Gap in STEM Majors: The (Un)-Importance of Life Goals
There is a large gender gap in who chooses STEM majors, yet decades of research have failed to explain this gap in its entirety. We use extensive data on incoming college freshmen to estimate the importance of ability (both test-based and self-assessed), life goals, other self-assessed traits, high
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