Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations

We study the decision to pursue an advanced degree from an internationally renowned academic institution, which greatly facilitates access to top jobs. Relying on unique data on applications to a highly selective program that provides graduate fellowships to Spanish students, we show that women in n...

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Autores: Farré, Lídia, Ortega, Francesc
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palavra-chave:Fellowships
Gender
Geographic mobility
Post-graduate studies
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spelling Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirationsFarré, LídiaOrtega, FrancescFellowshipsGenderGeographic mobilityPost-graduate studiesWe study the decision to pursue an advanced degree from an internationally renowned academic institution, which greatly facilitates access to top jobs. Relying on unique data on applications to a highly selective program that provides graduate fellowships to Spanish students, we show that women in non-STEM fields apply to the fellowships at lower rates than males with the same GPA and in the same field of study. On the contrary, our estimates imply that females in STEM apply at equal, or higher, rates than comparable males in the same fields. We also find that female students are relatively less interested in doctoral programs and less willing to study abroad than males. To shed light on the mechanisms, we surveyed college students about their post-graduation plans. The lower geographic mobility of female students (in non-STEM fields) appears linked to females’ lower earnings expectations and a gender-asymmetric detrimental effect of involvement in romantic relationships.We are grateful to the La Caixa Foundation and the participating universities for providing access to their data and for their overall support. We also thank Pol Campos-Mercadé, Rosa Ferrer, Paola Giuliano, Laura Hospido, Pedro Rey, Carlos Sanz and Judit Vall for helpful comments. We are particularly indebted to Amparo Asensi, Dolors Baena, David Casado, Domènec Espriu, Montserrat Masoliver, Jessica Pan, Pablo Pareja, Raul Ramos, Santi Roca and Josep Ros. We acknowledge the financial support of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant PID2022-140206OB-I00), the Government of Catalonia (grant 2021SGR-00261), the Social Observatory at La Caixa Foundation (SR22-00042), and the Severo Ochoa Program for Centres of Excellence in R and D (BSE CEX2019-000915-S) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.Peer reviewedElsevier BVFundación la CaixaAgencia Estatal de Investigación (España)Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)Generalitat de CatalunyaMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)Farré, Lídia [0000-0002-1263-5244]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202420242024info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/372098https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85197367104reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE##PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023/PID2022-140206OB-I00info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI//CEX2019-000915-SThe underlying dataset has been published as supplementary material of the article in the publisher platform at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102550https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102550Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3720982026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations
title Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations
spellingShingle Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations
Farré, Lídia
Fellowships
Gender
Geographic mobility
Post-graduate studies
title_short Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations
title_full Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations
title_fullStr Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations
title_full_unstemmed Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations
title_sort Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Farré, Lídia
Ortega, Francesc
author Farré, Lídia
author_facet Farré, Lídia
Ortega, Francesc
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author2 Ortega, Francesc
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Fundación la Caixa
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
Generalitat de Catalunya
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
Farré, Lídia [0000-0002-1263-5244]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
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Gender
Geographic mobility
Post-graduate studies
topic Fellowships
Gender
Geographic mobility
Post-graduate studies
description We study the decision to pursue an advanced degree from an internationally renowned academic institution, which greatly facilitates access to top jobs. Relying on unique data on applications to a highly selective program that provides graduate fellowships to Spanish students, we show that women in non-STEM fields apply to the fellowships at lower rates than males with the same GPA and in the same field of study. On the contrary, our estimates imply that females in STEM apply at equal, or higher, rates than comparable males in the same fields. We also find that female students are relatively less interested in doctoral programs and less willing to study abroad than males. To shed light on the mechanisms, we surveyed college students about their post-graduation plans. The lower geographic mobility of female students (in non-STEM fields) appears linked to females’ lower earnings expectations and a gender-asymmetric detrimental effect of involvement in romantic relationships.
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