Gender Bias in Performance Evaluations:
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This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in performance evaluations of university teachers. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset on 19,962 teaching evaluations, where students are randomly allocated to female or male teachers. Despite the fact that neither students’ grades nor self-study hours are affected by the teacher’s gender, we find that in particular male students evaluate female teachers worse than male teachers. The bias is largest for junior teachers, which is worrying since their lower evaluations might affect junior women’s confidence and hence have direct as well as indirect effects on women’s progression into academic careers. JEL Codes: J16, J71, I23, J45
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