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Table 3 Marginal effects of enrollment in different higher education pathways

From: Gender gap in STEM pathways: the role of secondary curricula in a highly differentiated school system—the case of Chile

 

Not-enrolled HE

Vocational postsecondary institutions

University

STEM

Non-STEM

STEM

Non-STEM

VE

0.080

**

0.063

**

0.031

**

− 0.033

**

− 0.141

**

(0.002)

 

(0.002)

 

(0.002)

 

(0.002)

 

(0.002)

 

AE-STEM

− 0.017

**

0.026

**

− 0.028

**

0.086

**

− 0.067

**

(0.003)

 

(0.003)

 

(0.003)

 

(0.003)

 

(0.004)

 

VE-STEM

0.094

**

0.190

**

− 0.085

**

0.046

**

− 0.246

**

(0.004)

 

(0.003)

 

(0.003)

 

(0.003)

 

(0.004)

 

VE-non-STEM

0.086

**

− 0.022

**

0.075

**

− 0.007

**

− 0.131

**

(0.003)

 

(0.002)

 

(0.003)

 

(0.002)

 

(0.003)

 

Number of observations

     

125,628

 
  1. Effects of the VE track and upper-secondary tracks split by STEM and non-STEM
  2. Marginal effects are evaluated at the means; HE = higher education; AE = academic education; VE = vocational education; AE-non-STEM as based
  3.  + p < 0.05 *p < 0.01 **p < 0.001; standard error in parenthesis