-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and …

science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between … students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects). However, the evidence on whether these interactions actually … matter is limited and contradictory. In this study, I present new empirical evidence on whether assignment to a same-gender …

quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor market human capital investments. Undergraduate students are presented … job attribute preferences to major choice. Using data on students' perceptions about the demand side of the labor market …--beliefs about expected attributes of jobs students anticipate being offered if they were to complete particular majors--we find that …

, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using … newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the …, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of …

indicate strong selectivity of test-takers in quot;ACT states,quot; where most college-bound students take the ACT, and much …

This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South … about students that is of common interest to all colleges, lower-ranked colleges can gain in competition with higher …

This paper examines how the growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in graduate programs affects native … of foreign students on native educational outcomes differs dramatically across ethnic groups, and is particularly adverse … for white native men. There is a strong negative correlation between increases in the number of foreign students enrolled …

observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to … explore whether competition, by itself, can cause differential job entry. The data highlight the power of the compensation …

first period. However, the male advantage is not found in any subsequent period of competition, or even after a two …-week break from competition. Some evidence suggests that males may actually perform worse than females in later periods. The … analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …