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 … larger classes. This difference suggests that direct and frequent interactions between students and professors are important …

enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We find for both that disadvantaged students match to lower quality degrees … there are negligible gender gaps in academic match, high-attaining women systematically undermatch in terms of expected …

due to the Covid-pandemic. Treated students met in small groups, in alternating weeks with and without a more senior … student tutor. The treatment improved study behavior and increased contact to other students. Tutored students achieved around …

paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …

which challenging long-term tasks are completed. Providing university students with ongoing relative feedback on accumulated … among students with medium pre-treatment graduation probabilities: when these students are informed about an above …

students to generally exhibit stronger “sensitivity” to grades. We examine student persistence in a wide spectrum of academic … terms of attrition, to grades received is not a gender-specific characteristic but more likely to reflect gender differences … make students more responsive to grades received in it, rather than the other way around as is commonly suggested …

application decisions for all students, but it impacted students differently based on gender and academic performance. High …-performing male students showed the strongest reaction, shifting their first-ranked application from non-selective long …-term universities to selective long-term programs. On average, female students, regardless of performance, did not show a systematic …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students’ current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students’ course evaluations. Building …