TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Carpio, Lucía Del
AU  - Guadalupe, Maria
        TI  - More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
        PY  - 2018/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11876
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11876
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - social norms
KW  - occupational segregation
KW  - identity
        ER  -