%0 Report
        %A Carpio, Lucía Del
%A Guadalupe, Maria
        %T More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
        %D 2018
        %8 2018 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 11876
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11876
        %X 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.
        %K social norms
%K occupational segregation
%K identity