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 …

. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …

It is difficult to measure teaching quality at the postsecondary level because students typically "self-select" their … decisions. We exploit the random assignment of college students to professors in a large body of required coursework to examine … in contemporaneous and follow-on related courses, but the effects are quite heterogeneous across subjects. Students of …

subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to …-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 …

. This paper attempts to fill this void using a unique dataset of students at public, four-year colleges in Ohio. The paper …. Because students with alternative instructors may differ systematically from other students, the paper uses two empirical … differ by discipline. Adjuncts and graduate assistants negatively affect students in the humanities while positively …

This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern … students learn relatively more from non-tenure line professors in their introductory courses. These differences are present … across a wide variety of subject areas, and are particularly pronounced for Northwestern's average students and less …

experiment embedded in a survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided … find that expectations of working among those in the Control group are quite high, yet students underestimate the expected …

We estimate the career and location preferences of students in U.S. doctoral programs in a major STEM field - chemistry …. Our analysis is based on novel survey conducted in 2017 of 1,605 current Chemistry doctoral students enrolled in the top … 54 U.S. research intensive universities. First, we estimate the career preferences of foreign and U.S. STEM students for …