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Do role models matter in large classes? : new evidence on gender match effects in higher education
Maurer, Stephan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects … 2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on student performance are sizable in smaller classes, but do not exist in … for the emergence of gender match effects. Instead, the mere fact that one's professor is female is not sufficient to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499191
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Do role models matter in large classes? : new evidence on gender match effects in higher education
Maurer, Stephan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
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 2018, we show that gender match effects are sizable in smaller classes … professors are crucial for gender match effects to emerge. In contrast, the mere fact that one's professor is female is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014283173
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Do role models matter in large classes? : new evidence on gender match effects in higher education
Maurer, Stephan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects … 2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on student performance are sizable in smaller classes, but do not exist in … for the emergence of gender match effects. Instead, the mere fact that one's professor is female is not sufficient to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013486141
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Do role models matter in large classes? : new evidence on gender match effects in higher education
Maurer, Stephan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects … 2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on student performance are sizable in smaller classes, but do not exist in … for the emergence of gender match effects. Instead, the mere fact that one's professor is female is not sufficient to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013492990
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Can we support diversity by performance measurement of European higher education institutions?
Krempkow, René; Kamm, Ruth - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 3, pp. 227-242
The overall aim of the article is to discuss different ways of assessing and handling performance differences of higher education institutions caused by varying initial conditions with regard to the student populations' diversity. We introduce and compare two approaches we expect worthwhile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297758
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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016328
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Asian American discrimination in Harvard admissions
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2020
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203195
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Non-college occupations, workplace routinization, and the gender gap in college enrollment
Chuan, Amanda; Zhang, Weilong - 2023
This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250544
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Searching on Campus? Marriage Market Effects of the Student Gender Composition
Pestel, Nico - 2017
This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942117
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Gender separation and academic achievement in higher education : evidence from a natural experiment in Iran
Kamal, Zahra - 2021
In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619812