Arbeitspapier

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11000

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Labor Discrimination
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Public Sector Labor Markets
Thema
gender bias
teaching evaluations
female faculty

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mengel, Friederike
Sauermann, Jan
Zölitz, Ulf
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2017

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Mengel, Friederike
  • Sauermann, Jan
  • Zölitz, Ulf
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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