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COLLEGE ADVISING AND GENDER
Author(s) -
Thompson Shane
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/ecin.12421
Subject(s) - sample (material) , psychology , gender bias , field (mathematics) , mathematics education , medical education , demographic economics , economics , social psychology , mathematics , medicine , chemistry , chromatography , pure mathematics
This paper uses a field experiment to identify college advising gender biases. Five hundred and thirty surveys are randomized over a national sample of practicing advisors such that student gender is the “treatment” of the experiment. I find that advisors discount the ability of female students relative to males by statistically significant magnitudes in both mathematics and English. Additionally, male advisors recommend mathematics with much greater likelihood than do female advisors. ( JEL I2, J16)