Can Role Models Influence Female Students’ Decision to Participate in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment
通过随机分配高中生观看榜样或安慰剂视频，发现女性榜样能激励学生申请研究团队的工作，并提升实验任务表现，对女学生的职业抱负和自我效能感有积极影响。
In this paper, we randomly assigned upper secondary school students to watch a role model or a placebo video. After video exposure, we gave female and male students the opportunity to apply for one of two types of jobs in our research team. We find that the female role model encourages students to apply for one of the jobs compared with the placebo. Treated students increase their performance in a lab task compared with students in the control. We find suggestive evidence that the role model videos increase female students’ aspirations and general self-efficacy beliefs relative to their female counterparts in the placebo condition.