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Gendered language in academic evaluations : evidence from the Italian university system

Casamonti, Matilde; Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2024

We analyze the impact of evaluator and candidate gender on the language used in academic evaluations using data on 295 … to evaluators, but we find no indication that the language of the assessments depends on the gender of either the …

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University differences in the graduation of minorities in STEM fields : evidence from California

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Hotz, Vincent Joseph - 2013

The low number of college graduates with science degrees - particularly among under-represented minorities - is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a...

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University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields : Evidence from California

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2013

The low number of college graduates with science degrees – particularly among under-represented minorities – is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a...

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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...

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High School Role Models and Minority College Achievement

Delhommer, Scott - 2021

Large racial differences persist in college enrollment and major choice, which may be exacerbated by the racial distribution of high school teachers. In this paper, I present the first evidence that matching high school students with same-race teachers improves the students’ college outcomes....

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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...

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Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests : evidence from the GRE test

Schlosser, Analia; Neeman, Zvika; Attali, Yigal - 2019

We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger...

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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 …

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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 …

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Attainment and Gender Equality in Higher Education : Evidence from a Large Scale Expansion

Caner, Asena - 2019

gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of …, thereby raising the gender gap …

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