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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

show that Harvard encourages applications from many students who effectively have no chance of being admitted, and that …

contrast to previous results at the secondary education level. Contrary to the gender composition at lower levels of education …

This paper presents evidence that anonymous grading benefits female university students, based on a university …

-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are sensitive to the distance they must travel to access public colleges … and universities, but there are heterogeneous effects across students - particularly with regard to distance to public two …-year colleges (i.e., community colleges). White, Asian, and higher-income students who live in a community college desert (i.e., at …

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. To address endogenous sorting of students and teachers, I use detailed Texas … school, eliminating 99% of observed same-race sorting. Race-matching raises minority students’ course performance as well as …