The data in evaluations.csv come from Hamermesh & Parker (2005) and were made available by Gelman & Hill (2007). This data were collected from student evaluations of instructors’ beauty and teaching quality for several courses at the University of Texas. The teaching evaluations were conducted at the end of the semester, and the beauty judgments were made later, by six students who had not attended the classes and were not aware of the course evaluations. The variables are:
prof_id
: Professor ID numberavg_eval
: Average course ratingnum_courses
: Number of courses for which the professor has evaluationsnum_students
: Number of students enrolled in the professor’s coursesperc_evaluating
: Average percentage of enrolled students who completed an evaluationbeauty
: Measure of the professor’s beauty composed of the average score on six standardized beauty ratingstenured
: Is the professor tenured? (0 = non-tenured; 1 = tenured)native_english
: Is the professor a native English speaker? (0 = non-native English speaker; 1 = native English speaker)age
: Professor’s age (in years)female
: Is the professor female? (0 = not female; 1 = female)
Preview
# A tibble: 6 x 10
prof_id avg_eval num_courses num_students perc_evaluating beauty tenured
<dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 1 4 4 416 62.0 0.202 0
2 2 3.53 3 104 87.0 -0.826 1
3 3 3.45 2 250 78.5 -0.660 1
4 4 4.01 8 223 84.3 -0.766 1
5 5 4.35 6 331 81.8 1.42 0
6 6 4.44 7 1849 59.8 0.500 1
native_english age female
<dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 1 36 1
2 1 59 0
3 1 51 0
4 1 40 1
5 1 31 1
6 1 62 0
References
Gelman, A., & Hill, J. (2007). Data analysis using regression and multilevel/hierarchical models. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hamermesh, D. S., & Parker, A. M. (2005). Beauty in the classroom: Instructors’ pulchritude and putative pedagogical productivity. Economics of Education Review, 24, 369–376.