ECIN Replication Package for "Adams and Eves: High School Math and the Gender Gap in Economics Majors"

Why so few women graduate in Economics? We investigate the gender gap amongItalian university graduates in Economics between 2010 and 2019. With women'sprobability of graduating in Economics being 27 percent lower than men's, the gapis larger than in Business and even STEM. The association between the gender gapand the mathematical content of high school curricula is especially strong in Economics. A triple difference analysis shows that a reform raising the mathematicalcontent of traditionally low math curricula caused an increase in the gender gap,with women's probability of graduating in Economics decreasing by 12 percentagepoints.