The Impacts of Same and Opposite Gender Alumni Speakers on Interest in Economics /
Patnaik, Arpita.
The Impacts of Same and Opposite Gender Alumni Speakers on Interest in Economics / Arpita Patnaik, Gwyn C. Pauley, Joanna Venator, Matthew J. Wiswall. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w30983 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30983. .
February 2023.
What is the impact of male and female alumni speaker interventions in introductory microeconomics courses on student interest in economics? Using student-level transcript data, we estimate the effect of speakers on future course-taking in models which use untreated lectures as control groups, including professor and semester fixed effects and student-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more responsive to same-gender speakers, with male speakers increasing men's course take-up by 36% and female speakers increasing women's course take-up by 40%, implying that the effect of alumni speakers is strongly gendered.
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Undergraduate
Field Experiments
Higher Education • Research Institutions
The Impacts of Same and Opposite Gender Alumni Speakers on Interest in Economics / Arpita Patnaik, Gwyn C. Pauley, Joanna Venator, Matthew J. Wiswall. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w30983 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30983. .
February 2023.
What is the impact of male and female alumni speaker interventions in introductory microeconomics courses on student interest in economics? Using student-level transcript data, we estimate the effect of speakers on future course-taking in models which use untreated lectures as control groups, including professor and semester fixed effects and student-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more responsive to same-gender speakers, with male speakers increasing men's course take-up by 36% and female speakers increasing women's course take-up by 40%, implying that the effect of alumni speakers is strongly gendered.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Undergraduate
Field Experiments
Higher Education • Research Institutions