. The effect is stronger for mathematics/science than for reading, implying the existence of subject-dependent curricular …

choices and grades, there is an 8% gender gap in earnings at age 33 for persons who pursued a graduate degree; the choice of …While gender differences in the decision of what to study at undergraduate level are much studied, there is relatively … Ireland to study these choices. We find systematic and substantial differences by gender in choice of graduate field, even …

design, we show that high-achieving classrooms improve math test scores by 0.23 standard deviations, with effects persisting …

the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a … plausible mechanism, we show that biased teachers negatively affect girls' attitude towards math as compared to boys. Unlike … math outcome, we do not find any significant effect when we analyze the effect of biased English teachers on English scores …

I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self … partially driven by a lower self-confidence on own math ability of girls exposed to gender biased teachers. The findings are …