Carrell, Scott E.; Page, Marianne E.; West, James E. - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (2010) 3, pp. 1101-1144
Why aren't there more women in science? This paper begins to shed light on this question by exploiting data from the U.S. Air Force Academy, where students are randomly assigned to professors for a wide variety of mandatory standardized courses. We focus on the role of professor gender. Our...