Economist interested in meta-science and open science.
Joined January 2016
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Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?
NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.
A 🧵generalizability and same-sex teacher effects
zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/234072…
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Jan Feld retweeted
31 Jul 2025
New working paper! We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures in first-semester courses. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉
wt @_XiaoyueShan_ @UschiBackes
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Jan Feld retweeted
22 Jan 2025
New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!
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We are very excited to welcome @EconFeld to our #ResearchSeminar today. He will give a talk on “On the generalizability of sex-differences in risk-attitudes”. The seminar takes place from 14:15 to 15:30 in room S3/4 in the Oeconomicum (building 24.31).
janfeld.weebly.com
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Better scientific writing causes better evaluations, and is associated with more citations
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30 Oct 2024
We had games in Munich earlier this week. 60 participants reproducing 15 studies (3 econ, 4 poli sci and 8 psych articles)!
Some papers did not reproduce, missing data/codes, 2x revealed identity of participants, errors, etc.
A couple of thoughts from our chair (AB). 🧵
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Jan Feld retweeted
9 Sep 2024
I’m very happy to introduce our new WP with @yveszenou1, @BhagyaGunaward5 and @sofoklis_goulas! We study the impact of being randomly assigned to a classroom with a same-gender top-performing student on short- & long-term educational outcomes. #EconTwitter @MonashBusiness
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Jan Feld retweeted
17 Aug 2024
Job-market candidates:
- Download 10 JMPs in your field, read them in ≤5 hours, and rank them from best to worst. Now you know why recruiting committees value readability.
- Editing improves paper quality. See RCT: doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.…
(More at jdingel.com/teaching/advice.…)
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really important work!
28 May 2024
How credible was the "credibility revolution"? How robust is empirical research in economics? We just replicated a year's worth of the American Economic Review & had economists predict robustness. Here's what we learned. econstor.eu/handle/10419/295…
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In Taiwan, disadvantaged minorities lower student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement in classrooms to which they are randomly assigned, and this lowers student test scores, from @adegendre, @chriskarbownik, @nsalamancaa, and @yveszenou1 nber.org/papers/w32429
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Jan Feld retweeted
15 May 2024
It's great to see a meta-analysis and multi-country study verify more robustly what @ALeNestour & I observed in our quick @CGDev look at whether women teachers are better for girls' education (yes in secondary; no in primary): cgdev.org/blog/are-female-te…
Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?
NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.
A 🧵generalizability and same-sex teacher effects
zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/234072…
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Jan Feld retweeted
15 May 2024
Very thought-provoking paper by an amazing team of economists! A must read... (independently of your sex😜)
Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?
NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.
A 🧵generalizability and same-sex teacher effects
zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/234072…
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Jan Feld retweeted
15 May 2024
Very impressive research by Jan and the team, which they just keep improving (I discussed a version of this paper two years ago and it was an epic then).
Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?
NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.
A 🧵generalizability and same-sex teacher effects
zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/234072…
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Jan Feld retweeted
15 May 2024
Very impressive online supplement and not just because the Shiny app actually responds quickly.
For interactive, country-level results, see: role-model-effects.com
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Jan Feld retweeted
15 May 2024
Our work with @AdeGendre, @chriskarbownik and @yveszenou1 combines a simple model and awesome data to show how and why disadvantaged minorities in the classroom to affect behaviors of students, parents and teachers, and ultimately test scores. Check it out!
In Taiwan, disadvantaged minorities lower student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement in classrooms to which they are randomly assigned, and this lowers student test scores, from @adegendre, @chriskarbownik, @nsalamancaa, and @yveszenou1 nber.org/papers/w32429
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Jan Feld retweeted
15 May 2024
New work with awesome coauthors @AdeGendre, @EconFeld and @uZoelitz exploring the generalizability of same-sex teacher effects by combining existing multi-country data and met analysis tools. Check out the thread below!
Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?
NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.
A 🧵generalizability and same-sex teacher effects
zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/234072…
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In secondary education, same-sex teacher effects are generally positive for all outcomes.
For test scores, effects even appear constant (and tiny) across all included countries.
ALT Estimated distribution of true same-sex teacher effects on test scores and subject enjoyment in secondary school
ALT Estimated distribution of true same-sex teacher effects on subject confidence and job preferences in secondary education
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Taken together, our paper allows us to provide evidence for the following phenomenon:
Same-sex teacher effects are positive in secondary education.
“In secondary education” is a boundary condition of the phenomenon. It tells us where we should expect it to hold.
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For interactive, country-level results, see: role-model-effects.com
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