Gender, ethnicity and teaching evaluations: Evidence from mixed teaching teams

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 79-94

  Wagner, Natascha ^a   Rieger, Matthias ^a   Voorvelt, Katherine ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bias; Course year fixed effects; Ethnicity; Gender; Student evaluations of teaching

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; GENDER; HIGHER EDUCATION; STUDENT; TEACHING;

EID: 84979080231     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.06.004     Document Type: Article

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