The Impacts of Same and Opposite Gender Alumni Speakers on Interest in Economics

Arpita Patnaik, Gwyn C. Pauley, Joanna Venator and Matthew Wiswall ()

No 30983, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: What is the impact of male and female alumni speaker interventions in introductory microeconomics courses on student interest in economics? Using student-level transcript data, we estimate the effect of speakers on future course-taking in models which use untreated lectures as control groups, including professor and semester fixed effects and student-level covariates. Alumni speakers increase intermediate economics course take-up by 2.1 percentage points (11%). Students are more responsive to same-gender speakers, with male speakers increasing men’s course take-up by 36% and female speakers increasing women’s course take-up by 40%, implying that the effect of alumni speakers is strongly gendered.

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Date: 2023-02
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