Dr. Shane Thompson's Research Published in Economic Inquiry

November 29, 2016 (Washington, DC) -  Dr. Shane Thompson's experimental research has been published in Economic Inquiry, a leading academic journal in the field of economics.

Dr. Thompson's article is entitled "College Advising and Gender." From the abstract: 

This paper uses a field experiment to identify college advising gender biases. Five hundred and thirty surveys are randomized over a national sample of practicing advisors such that student gender is the “treatment” of the experiment. I find that advisors discount the ability of female students relative to males by statistically significant magnitudes in both mathematics and English. Additionally, male advisors recommend mathematics with much greater likelihood than do female advisors. [doi:10.1111/ecin.1242]

The full text of Dr. Thompson's article is currently available for early view here and will be published in hard copy within six months.

Dr. Thompson is a senior consultant with Summit, where he conducts research projects for several Federal agencies. He specializes in program evaluation and quantitative methodologies.

Congratulations to Dr. Thompson on this publication!

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