| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Trial Status | Before in_development | After completed |
| Field Trial End Date | Before December 31, 2024 | After April 19, 2024 |
| Field Last Published | Before August 16, 2023 11:21 AM | After May 08, 2024 04:15 AM |
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After October 31, 2023 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After No |
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After 5952 |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After 2977 hypothetical daughters, 2975 hypothetical sons |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
| Field Program Files | Before | After No |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After October 31, 2023 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention End Date | Before December 29, 2023 | After October 31, 2023 |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a persistent concern for policymakers and academics globally. We contribute to the literature on gendered career choices by focusing on explicitly stated parental preferences for their children’s occupations, using a large-scale randomized survey experiment with adults (N=5940) in Switzerland. The focus on parents (and hypothetical parents) is motivated by the observation that adolescents consistently mention their parents as the single most important factor influencing their career choices. The surveyed adults are presented with a realistic choice situation, in which their hypothetical daughter or son has been proposed two different training occupations. The pair of occupations presented to the adults is drawn from a random sample of 105 pairs of occupations, and the respondents are not informed about the gender distribution of the two occupations. Results show that adults are gender-neutral when advising a daughter but have a pronounced preference for male-dominated occupations when advising sons. Preferences are almost identical for parents and non-parents and across age cohorts of adults. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Wolter, S. C. , and T. Zöllner (2024): "Are Parents an Obstacle to Gender-Atypical Occupational Choices?" IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 16955 |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/16955/are-parents-an-obstacle-to-gender-atypical-occupational-choices |