A Professor Like Me
研究大学教师性别是否影响学生成绩和科目兴趣，发现同性别教师最多使平均成绩提高5%标准差，并降低1.2个百分点的退课率，表明性别榜样对部分学生有作用。
Abstract Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and subject interest. The data used in this paper help identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to male or female teachers. We find instructor gender plays only a minor role in determining college student achievement. Nevertheless, the small effects provide evidence that gender role models matter to some college students. A same-sex instructor increases average grade performance by at most 5 percent of its standard deviation and decreases the likelihood of dropping a class by 1.2 percentage points.