This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school …, conditional on test scores, same-gender teachers are less generous than opposite-gender teachers when assessing students … comprehensive national tests. The analysis is based on data on grade 9 students (age 16) from Sweden. I find that a student is …

of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic … compared to test results in all three subjects studied. Non-native students are more generously rewarded in teachers …

A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in … preferences in examination behavior. Students have the possibility of attaining a seminar bonus on the final exam for near … initial quizzes can either be accepted as is, or students can attempt to improve their marks by answering similar quiz …

­ever, social interactive ability turns out to be important for low aptitude students, whilst the reverse holds for cognitive … abilities. In fact, while high performing students benefit from high cognitive teachers, being matched to such a teacher can … even be detrimental to their lower performing peers. Hence, the lower abilities among teachers may hurt some students …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regressiondiscontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …