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ERIC Number: EJ1259731
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 30
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1557-3060
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The Effects of Demographic Mismatch in an Elite Professional School Setting
Birdsall, Chris; Gershenson, Seth; Zuniga, Raymond
Education Finance and Policy, v15 n3 p457-486 Sum 2020
Ten years of administrative data from a diverse, private, top-100 law school are used to examine the ways in which female and nonwhite students benefit from exposure to demographically similar faculty in first-year, required law courses. Arguably, causal impacts of exposure to same-sex and same-race instructors on course-specific outcomes such as course grades are identified by leveraging quasi-random classroom assignments and a two-way (student and classroom) fixed effects strategy. Having an other-sex instructor reduces the likelihood of receiving a good grade (A or A-) by 1 percentage point (3 percent) and having an other-race instructor reduces the likelihood of receiving a good grade by 3 percentage points (10 percent). The effects of student--instructor demographic mismatch are particularly salient for nonwhite and female students. These results provide novel evidence of the pervasiveness of demographic-match effects and of the graduate school education production function.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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