@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp11876,
            	author={Carpio, Lucía Del and Guadalupe, Maria},
            	title={More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity},
            	year={2018},
	month={Oct},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={11876},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11876},
	abstract={This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational choices. We implement two field experiments with potential applicants to a five-month software-coding program offered to women from low-income backgrounds in Peru and Mexico. When we correct the perception that women cannot succeed in technology by providing role models, information on returns and access to a female network, application rates double and the self-selection patterns change. Analysis of those patterns suggests that identity considerations act as barriers to entering the technology sector and that some high-cognitive skill women do not apply because of their high identity costs.},
	keywords={social norms;occupational segregation;identity},
            }