It is well established that female students perform better when taught by female professors. However, little is known about the mechanisms explaining these gender match effects. Using administrative records from a German public university, which cover all programs and courses between 2006 and...

Als Frauen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts Zugang zu Universitäten gewährt wurde, studierten die meisten von ihnen Fächer, die als ""weiblich"" galten. Heute gibt es mehr Studentinnen der Wirtschaftswissenschaften als etwa der Germanistik. Was hat Frauen in den letzten Jahrzehnten dazu...

Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to male or female teachers. In contrast to previous...