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Last published 2026
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Gema Zamarro

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High Impact

Professor

25 h-index 154 pubs 3,935 cited

  • Humans
  • Health Status
  • Retirement
  • Academic Success
  • Female
  • Male
  • Motivation
  • Self Report
  • Research Design
  • Bias
  • Aged
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Europe
  • Health Surveys
  • Middle Aged

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Gema Zamarro is a researcher at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her work has focused on a range of topics including educational outcomes, gender differences, and health. Zamarro has investigated the effects of dual-language immersion programs on student achievement and examined the relationship between teacher qualifications and student academic success in urban elementary schools. She has also explored the impact of school closures on student outcomes in shrinking districts.

In addition to her work in education, Zamarro has published research on gender differences in childcare, work, and mental health, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her research also extends to the financial literacy of women and the effects of retirement on health in Europe. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 25, 3,935 total citations across 154 publications, and she is designated as a highly cited researcher. Zamarro has collaborated with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Josh B. McGee and Andrew Camp.

Metrics

  • h-index: 25
  • Publications: 154
  • Citations: 3,935

Positions

  • Professor 2019–present
    University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Educators’ Job Burnout and Intentions to Leave During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2025)
  • Non-cognitive Skills (2025)
  • Looking Back and Moving Forward: COVID-19’s Impact on the Teacher Labor Market and Implications for the Future (2024)
    Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Teachers’ Knowledge and Preparedness for Retirement: Results From a Nationally Representative Teacher Survey (2024)
    AERA Open 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of the dual-language immersion on students' academic performance (2023)
    Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Understanding performance in test taking: The role of question difficulty order (2022)
    Economics of Education Review 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Pandemic prompts more teachers to consider early retirement or new career (2021)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Determinants of Ethnic Differences in School Modality Choices During the COVID-19 Crisis (2021)
    Educational Researcher 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Gender differences in couples’ division of childcare, work and mental health during COVID-19 (2021)
    Review of Economics of the Household 513 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Family labor participation and child care decisions: the role of grannies (2020)
    SERIEs 49 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Teacher-to-Classroom Assignment and Student Achievement (2020)
    National Bureau of Economic Research 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Personality as a Predictor of Unit Nonresponse in an Internet Panel (2020)
    Sage Journals Data 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • When Students Don’t Care: Reexamining International Differences in Achievement and Student Effort (2019)
    Journal of Human Capital 76 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Understanding a Vicious Cycle: The Relationship Between Student Discipline and Student Academic Outcomes (2019)
    Educational Researcher 105 citations DOI OpenAlex

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