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Publication date: 12 September 2024

Cristian Barra, Sergio Destefanis, Vania Sena and Roberto Zotti

This paper provides novel evidence on the role of gender in the performance of university students, which is particularly relevant to the debate on the performance of female…

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Purpose

This paper provides novel evidence on the role of gender in the performance of university students, which is particularly relevant to the debate on the performance of female students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects.

Design/methodology/approach

Our approach relies on the metafrontier approach proposed by Huang et al. (2014), which measures students' efficiency within a given faculty and the impact of the faculty’s technology on students’ efficiency. We use a sample of 53,159 first-year students in 8 faculties from a large university in southern Italy from 2002–2003 to 2010–2011.

Findings

Students’ efficiency is relatively low, reflecting an essential role of unobserved heterogeneity. The different technologies of somewhat similar faculties have minimal impact on efficiency. There is a performance gap against women in five faculties, which on average is strongest for the faculties in the pure and applied science area. This gap increases with the proportion of female students and decreases with female lecturers.

Practical implications

The metafrontier has the benefit of providing relevant policy information on the drivers of student success by relying on data that universities routinely generate and preserve.

Originality/value

The stochastic metafrontier approach allows us to separate the group-specific frontiers from the metafrontier, yielding a decomposition of the efficiency scores of various faculties into technical efficiency scores and technological gaps.

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Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 51 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-3585

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Publication date: 1 March 2007

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Cooperative Firms in Global Markets
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ISBN: 978-0-7623-1389-1

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Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms
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ISBN: 978-0-85724-760-5

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ISBN: 978-0-85724-454-3

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Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms
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ISBN: 978-1-78190-221-9

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Publication date: 11 September 2012

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Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms
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ISBN: 978-1-78190-221-9

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Publication date: 8 May 2018

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Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work: Case Studies
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-520-7

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Publication date: 6 June 2017

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Sharing in the Company
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ISBN: 978-1-78560-966-4

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