Robb, Roberta Edgecombe; Robb, A. Leslie - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1997
in the likelihood that a student will continue in economics. We could find no evidence that gender of instructor matters …. As in other studies, we find that female students fare worse in economics than do male students controlling for measured … ability and background. Moreover, fewer females continue in economics than do males, even conditioning on first year …