This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in performance evaluations of university teachers. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset on 19,962 teaching evaluations, where students are randomly allocated to female or male teachers. Despite the fact that neither students’ grades nor self-study hours are affected by the teacher’s gender, we find that in particular male students evaluate fema...

This paper models two key roles of subjective performance evaluations: their incentive role and their feedback role. The paper shows that the feedback role makes subjective pay feasible even without repeated interaction, as long as there exists some veri…able measure of performance. It also shows that while subjective pay is helpful, it cannot achieve full e¢ ciency. However, fully e¢ cient inc...

We propose handling of external real-time events through multithreading and describe the microarchitecture of our multithreaded Java microcontroller, called Komodo microcontroller. Real-time Java threads are used as interrupt service threads (ISTs) instead of interrupt service routines (ISRs). Our proposed Komodo microcon-troller supports multiple ISTs with zero-cycle context switching overhead...

Much of the production in firms takes place over time. This paper seeks to understand the value of interim performance information on long projects. In particular, the model explores the sorting effects of performance evaluations. Conducting an interim performance evaluation increases efficiency by providing the option to end projects with low early returns. The main result: It is efficient to ...