. This paper attempts to fill this void using a unique dataset of students at public, four-year colleges in Ohio. The paper …. Because students with alternative instructors may differ systematically from other students, the paper uses two empirical … differ by discipline. Adjuncts and graduate assistants negatively affect students in the humanities while positively …

composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were … panel data from three rather different educational institutions, and use them to examine the relationship between the gender …

, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using … newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the …, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of …

-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting … to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later …Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and …

students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal … cohorts, students were allowed to choose their teams from among students in their section (roughly 90 students). In other … cohorts, students were randomly assigned to teams based upon a computer algorithm. In the cohorts that were allowed to choose …

. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures … instruction. These results are particularly strong for Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students. We also …