Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026We use Federal Reserve’s Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) from 2015 - 2023, which asks folks if they regret their field of study, their higher ed institution, whether they're get more education, whether they'd get less. 120 0
Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Women, overall, express greater regret of their field of study choice. And greater field of study regret relative to other kinds of education regret. But, that overall gender difference is almost entirely among CS / engineering 110 0
Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026We throw a few O-B decompositions at this gender gap. And CS / engineering regret gaps are mostly unexplained. they don't boil down to SES or demographic explanations. 100 0
