Are Faculty Role Models? Evidence from Major Choice in an Undergraduate Institution

By K. Rask, Elizabeth M. Bailey. 2002

211 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Gender Studies

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d886a2eea192b020266b691488962e4e4e06c11c

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In Education

1. Wendy M. Williams
2. K. Sund
3. S. Kahn
4. D. Ginther
5. Helena Holmlund
6. S. Ceci
7. Jenna Stearns
8. Shelly Lundberg

In Gender Studies

1. S. Ceci
2. Wendy M. Williams
3. K. Sund
4. S. Kahn
5. D. Ginther
6. Helena Holmlund
7. Shelly Lundberg
8. Jenna Stearns

Citations in the corpus

• Women in Academic Science (2014, background): “…college instructors, several economists have found that female students are more likely to pursue a major if they have had female faculty (Bettinger & Long, 2005; Canes & Rosen, 1995; Rask & Bailey, 2002) and that females perform better in courses with female faculty (Hoffman & Oreopoulos, 2007).”
• Is the Gender Gap in School Performance Affected by the Sex of the Teacher (2008, background): “Further studies that discuss role models in academia are Canes and Rosen (1995), Solnick (1995), Dynan and Rouse (1997), Ashworth and Evans (2001) and Rask and Bailey (2002).”