Gema Zamarro Data-verified

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High Impact

Professor

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-02

faculty

25 h-index 154 pubs 3,935 cited

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Gema Zamarro's research investigates a range of topics in education and behavioral economics, with a particular focus on gender differences, student performance, and teacher-related issues. Her work has explored gender gaps in math performance, perceived mathematical ability, and college STEM education, examining the influence of parental occupation. Zamarro has also studied the role of student effort on academic achievement, revisiting the gender gap in test performance.

In the realm of education policy and practice, her research includes an evaluation of the educational impact of college campus visits through a randomized experiment. She has also investigated factors affecting teachers' decisions to remain in the classroom, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and examined teachers' stated preferences for retirement benefits. Zamarro's publications also touch upon the impact of teacher-to-classroom assignment on student achievement and the role of question difficulty order on test-taking performance.

With a highly cited designation, Zamarro has published extensively, accumulating 154 publications and over 3,900 citations, indicated by her h-index of 25. She actively collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Josh B. McGee and Andrew Camp, and maintains an active lab website.

Metrics

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

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)
    6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Teachers’ Knowledge and Preparedness for Retirement: Results From a Nationally Representative Teacher Survey (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of the dual-language immersion on students' academic performance (2023)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Understanding performance in test taking: The role of question difficulty order (2022)
    15 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)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Gender differences in couples’ division of childcare, work and mental health during COVID-19 (2021)
    488 citations DOI OpenAlex

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