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College Major Choice and the Gender Gap

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Basit Zafar, a Ph.D candidate in economics at Northwestern University, studies the question of how undergraduates choose college majors, and attempts to explain why males and females make different choices with regards to college majors.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Fainsod Room, 324
College Major Choice and the Gender Gap

About

Basit Zafar is a specialist in Labor Economics with an interest in understanding how individuals make decisions under uncertainty and in the presence of social interactions. He also researches the role of social interactions in individual decision-making. His paper, Social Conformity: Theory and Experimental Investigation, outlines a simple model constructed on the premise that people are motivated by their own payoff and by how their action compares to others in their reference group.