differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their … more stereotypically female content than men's. Using our experimental design, we can conclude that these gender gaps are … generated primarily by content-based matching algorithms that use the worker's declared gender as a direct input. Action …

, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using …

randomly assigned to professors over a wide variety of mandatory standardized courses. We focus on the role of professor gender …. Our results suggest that while professor gender has little impact on male students, it has a powerful effect on female … arguably the students who are most suited to careers in science. Indeed, the gender gap in course grades and STEM majors is …

Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and …-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 …

panel data from three rather different educational institutions, and use them to examine the relationship between the gender … composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were …

produce. The utility of VA models for performance evaluation depends on the extent to which VA estimates are biased by … evaluating bias in VA is to test for balance in lagged values of the outcome, based on the intuition that today's inputs cannot …, tests for balance using lagged outcomes do not provide robust information about the degree of bias in value-added models for …

students' demographic characteristics and previous scores. This paper tests for VAM bias using a procedure that asks whether … model describing the joint distribution of school value-added, bias, and lottery compliance. We use this model to assess the … substantive importance of bias in conventional VAM estimates and to construct hybrid value-added estimates that optimally combine …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers' gender biases on boys' and girls' academic … teachers' biases favoring boys have an asymmetric effect by gender-- positive effect on boys' achievements and negative effect … on girls'. Such gender biases also impact students' enrollment in advanced level math courses in high school …

, homework assignments, and final course grade. Results from the scaled-up experiment are more mixed--we find significant …