TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Mansour, Hani
AU  - Rees, Daniel I.
AU  - Rintala, Bryson
AU  - Wozny, Nathan
        TI  - The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students
        PY  - 2018/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11820
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11820
        AB  - Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than 70% of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the effects of being assigned female math and science professors on occupation and postgraduate education. We find that, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation and the probability of receiving a STEM master's degree. 
        KW  - STEM occupational choice
KW  - post-graduate education
KW  - gender gap
        ER  -