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| Author: | Ballard, C. (et al.) |
| Title: | Gender, expectations, and grades in introductory microeconomics at a US university |
| Journal: | Feminist economics
2005 : MAR, VOL. 11:1, p. 95-122 |
| Index terms: | Gender Expectations Microeconomics Women USA |
| Freeterms: | Grades |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | According to the previous studies there is a gender gap in the study of economics in Canada, the UK and the US. Women expect to do less well than men in an introductory microeconomics course. These expectations are to some extent self-fulfilling. Expected grades have an important and positive effect on class performance. Having taken the economics course in secondary school actually has a negative effect on performance on both women and men, but it is more pronounced on women. However, when both expectations and secondary school experience with economics are included in the regressions, the independent effect of gender is very small. |
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