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Our main takeaway is that when choosing where to study it matters to see “someone like you” already doing it.
At the same time, there are no quick fixes: lasting change likely requires sustained exposure to role models and more structural interventions.
We also find that ethnic congruence matters.
Restricting the analysis to MENAPT role models and respondents yields substantively larger effects for their intentions to apply to the program.
We find that minority role models can increase young minority women’s interest in studying political science by 0.13 SD, and their intentions to apply by 0.08 SD.
However, the effects are short-lived: it does not persist one month later, and we find no effect on behavior.
We use stimuli sampled and professionally shot videos of current minority and majority women enrolled in the Political Science program.
Treated young women are exposed to a minority role model, while those shown a majority role model serve as a content-matched control group
In a pre-registered survey experiment among young minority women in Denmark (n ≈ 2,000), @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, @mschaeffer.bsky.social and I study whether minority role models increase interest in a bureaucracy-oriented university program.
Paper: osf.io/uqgx5/files/...
My first working paper is now live!
Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?
We also find that ethnic congruence matters.
Restricting the analysis to so-called MENAPT role models and respondents yields substantively larger effects for their intentions to apply to the program.
We find that minority role models can increase young minority women’s interest in studying political science by 0.13 SD, and their intentions to apply by 0.08 SD.
However, the effects are short-lived: it does not persist one month later, and we find no effect on behavior.
We use stimuli sampled and professionally shot videos of current minority and majority women enrolled in the Political Science program.
Treated young women are exposed to a minority role model, while those shown a majority role model serve as a content-matched control group.
In a pre-registered survey experiment among young minority women in Denmark (n ≈ 2,000), @AsmusOlsen, @MerlinSchaeffer and I study whether minority role models increase interest in a bureaucracy-oriented university program.
Paper: osf.io/uqgx5/files/...
