Maurer, Stephan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
It is well established that female students perform better when taught by female professors. However, little is known … about the mechanisms explaining these gender match effects. Using administrative records from a German public university …, which cover all programs and courses between 2006 and 2018, we show that gender match effects are sizable in smaller classes …