Erin M. Fahle

Assistant Professor,

School of Education at St. John’s University

Erin M. Fahle is an assistant professor in the School of Education at St. John’s University. Her research highlights and explains systemic gender, racial, and economic inequalities in educational opportunity using applied statistical methods. She is particularly interested in how gender limits children's educational opportunities within their homes, schools, and neighborhoods. Her research on gender inequality has been published in Educational Researcher and featured in The New York Times and The Atlantic. She received her PhD in education policy from Stanford University.

updated 2019

Contributing topics

Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health

Contributing initiatives

CORE-PACE Research Partnership

Erin M. Fahle in the Media

September 23, 2019 : School Poverty—Not Racial Composition—Limits Educational Opportunity, According to New Research at Stanford

March 29, 2018 : Question Format May Impact How Boys and Girls Score on Standardized Tests, Stanford Study Finds

Publications by Erin M. Fahle

October 2019

A Middle School Drop

Consistent Gender Differences in Students’ Self-Efficacy

Academic self-efficacy is a student’s belief in their ability to perform within a school environment. Prior research shows that students experience a drop in academic self-efficacy during middle school that is particularly steep for female students…