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A community college instructor like me : race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422202
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A Community College Instructor Like Me : Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120142
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A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280667
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A Professor Like Me : The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement
Hoffman, Florian - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760041
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A Professor Like Me : The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement
Hoffman, Florian - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465472
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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323401
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A professor like me : the influence of instructor gender on college achievement
Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 44 (2009) 2, pp. 479-494
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850719
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A professor like me : the influence of instructor gender on college achievement
Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003486877
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A community college instructor like me : race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2014
Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate models that include both student and classroom fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386646
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The Impact of Comprehensive Student Support on Crime: Evidence from the Pathways to Education Program
Lavecchia, Adam M.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Spencer, Noah - 2024
This study finds substantial reductions to criminal activity from the introduction of a comprehensive high school support program for disadvantaged youth living in the largest public housing project in Toronto. The program, called Pathways to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469569