underrepresentation of women and girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in Italy by stimulating young … female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …

underrepresentation of women and girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in Italy by stimulating young … female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

affects students' schooling decisions after graduation from junior high school. By using a longitudinal dataset of 2348 … students in two counties, we use ordinary least squares and propensity score matching to evaluate the impact of this program on … find that the effects of the program among middle-income students are stronger compared with those of other groups. And we …