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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Gema Zamarro

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High Impact

Professor

Faculty Researcher

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

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Gema Zamarro's research investigates the intersection of education, economics, and behavioral science, with a particular focus on gender disparities and educational outcomes. Her work examines how factors such as parental occupation, student effort, and question difficulty order influence academic performance in standardized tests and college-level STEM education. Zamarro has explored the impact of college campus visits on educational attainment through randomized experiments and has studied teacher retention in the classroom, particularly in light of events like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Her research also delves into household dynamics, including the division of childcare and work within couples, and how these arrangements relate to mental health. Zamarro has investigated teachers' preferences regarding retirement benefits using stated preference experiments. With a h-index of 25 and over 154 publications, her scholarship has been recognized as high-impact. She actively collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.

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)
    Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 7 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 17 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 510 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 75 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Understanding a Vicious Cycle: The Relationship Between Student Discipline and Student Academic Outcomes (2019)
    Educational Researcher 103 citations DOI OpenAlex

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