Graduates’ Opium? Cultural Values, Religiosity and Gender Segregation by Field of Study

Social Sciences

Izaskun Zuazu¹ 

[1] Institute for Socio-Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057 Duisburg, Germany;

关键词: horizontal gender segregation;    higher education;    cultural values;    religiosity;    math beliefs;    association index;   

DOI  :  10.3390/socsci9080135

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper studies the relationship between cultural values and gender distribution across fields of study in higher education. I compute national, field and subfield-level gender segregation indices for a panel dataset of 26 OECD countries for 1998–2012. This panel dataset expands the focus of previous macro-level research by exploiting data on gender segregation in specific subfields of study. Fixed-effects estimates associate higher country-level religiosity with lower gender segregation in higher education. These models crucially control for potential segregation factors, such as labor market and educational institutions, and gender gaps in both self-beliefs and academic performance in math among young people.

【 授权许可】

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