Yesterday, HomaFIles summarized a study done by economists Talia Bar (Cornell) and Asaf Zussman (Hebrew University) that concluded in the words of economist Mark Perry: “ … highly motivated, high-achieving students should prefer classes from Republican professors because it’s more likely they’ll be rewarded with a really high grade.
That’s good news for highly motivated, high achieving students — all they need to do is take classes from Republican profs.
Here’s the bad news: the aren’t many Republican profs around.
From the same study done by Bar and Zussman:
- There are virtually no Republican profs in the “softer” (i.e. more qualitative) disciplines such as the humanities and social studies
- Even in “harder” (i.e. more scientific and quantitative) disciplines such as the natural sciences, less than 1 in 5 profs are Republicans.
Ken’s Bet: Republican profs’ representation in business schools isn’t much higher that it is the natural sciences … go figure.
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