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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Sci. 2015 Feb 18;2:50–81. doi: 10.15195/v2.a5

Table 5.

Measures of the Impact of Gender Composition in the Major on the Pattern of Applications, TECH

Index of
Dissimilarity
% Female
in Major
Coef. SE
Unidimensional preference model 0.414 0.020 (.001)
Multinomial preferences model:
 First choice of all alternatives 0.434 0.026 (.001)
 Second choice of remaining alternatives 0.367 0.016 (.001)

Note: The coefficient for percentage female in major is from the model estimated on female applicants only.