Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100404 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014: Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik - Session: Education II No. B18-V1
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel und Hamburg
Abstract: 
This paper examines the role of the sociocultural background of students as measured by both religious denomination and political attitudes towards gender equality and science-related issues in their home environment for choosing STEM fields in university. Our empirical estimates are based on a structural Roy model which accounts for differences in costs (distance to the next technical niversity) and earnings across majors as well as for selection bias. Our findings suggest that male students from conservative and Catholic municipalities are more likely to study a STEM field, whereas the sociocultural background plays little role for the major choice of females.
JEL: 
I20
J24
C35
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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