TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Maurer, Stephan Ernst
AU  - Schwerdt, Guido
AU  - Wiederhold, Simon
        TI  - Do Role Models Matter in Large Classes? New Evidence on Gender Match Effects in Higher Education
        PY  - 2023/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15860
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15860
        AB  - We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects differ by class size. We use administrative records of a German public university, covering all programs and courses between 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 for the emergence of gender match effects. Instead, the mere fact that one's professor is female is not sufficient to increase performance of female students.
        KW  - gender gap
KW  - role models
KW  - tertiary education
KW  - professors
        ER  -