Frazier, Kevin2016-10-142016-10-142015-09https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2028286 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Economics and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Science, Spring 2016.Increasingly, female students in Oregon outperform their male colleagues on important indicators of academic success such as graduation rates and state exam scores. Quantifying the magnitude of the gender gap and determining the reasons for this gulf in performance will enable the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to take steps toward ameliorating this divide between students. This study, using regression analysis and data from the ODE, will provide educators around the nation with a more complete understanding of the factors that most significantly affect the creation and persistence of all kinds of gaps in educational outcomes.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USEducation reformDemographic gapsEducation inequalityPublic educationState testingHuman capitalSignaling TheoryGender gapThesis / Dissertation