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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students' grades nor self-study hours are affected by the instructor's gender, we find that women receive systematically lower teaching evaluations than their male colleagues. This bias is driven by male students' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women. The gender bias in teaching evaluations we document may have direct as well as indirect effects on the career progression of women by affecting junior women's confidence and through the reallocation of instructor resources away from research and towards teaching.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11000
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Labor Discrimination
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Public Sector Labor Markets
- Subject
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gender bias
teaching evaluations
female faculty
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mengel, Friederike
Sauermann, Jan
Zölitz, Ulf
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Mengel, Friederike
- Sauermann, Jan
- Zölitz, Ulf
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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