Dear colleagues, We hereby invite you to join our next Economics of Inequality Research Seminar<https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar> at WU Vienna. Federica Braccioli<https://federicabraccioli.github.io/> (WU) will present the paper Education Expansion, College Choice and Labour Market Success Co-Authors: Paolo Ghinetti, Simone Moriconi, Costanza Naguib, Michele Pellizzar. Date and Time: Monday, May 12; 3.00 p.m. Location: WU Vienna, D3 - D3.0.222<https://campus.wu.ac.at/?q=D3.0.222>. Abstract We study the choice of acquiring STEM and non-STEM college education using variation induced by the proximity to universities offering different types of programs. We adopt a novel methodology allowing the identification of the distribution of response types and treatment effects in a multiple unordered discrete choice setting (Heckman and Pinto, 2018). The empirical analysis is based on confidential survey data for Italy, combined with administrative information about the founding dates of all Italian universities and faculties. We find that most compliers are women at the margin of choosing STEM education versus not going to college. We simulate the effects of expanding the supply of STEM education and discover that, in addition to substantial effects on employment, the gender disparity in STEM education could potentially decrease by up to 20%. Please register your participation here<https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar/registration-braccioli>. Best regards, Franziska Disslbacher ---- Franziska Disslbacher, PhD Assistant Professor Institute for Spatial & Social-Ecological Transformations & Research Institute Economics of Inequality WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria CenTax Center for the Analysis of Taxation – University Warwick | LSE International Inequalities Institute – Research Fellow | Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality CUNY | SOEP / DIW – Associated Researcher World Inequality Lab PSE– Research Fellow +43 1 313 36 6669 franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at<mailto:franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at> franziskadisslbacher.com<http://franziskadisslbacher.com>