Leveraging a “quasi-experiment” where some of the faculty at a U.S. university unexpectedly saw their teaching loads increase, we test whether the steeper requirement affected student evaluations of teaching (SET). Using the university’s aggregated SET, we find the instructors assigned...

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, universities shifted from predominantly in-person learning to fully online instruction in early 2020. Subsequent semesters faced continued uncertainty regarding course modalities, with institutions adopting an idiosyncratic mix of formats dependent on...

I In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, universities closed to face-to-face learning, shifting entirely to online instruction midway through the spring 2020 semester. In this paper, we compare student performance in the COVID-19 affected semester to that of the previous three unaffected...