The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but systematic sorting of students into classrooms makes it difficult to identify causal effects. We use the random assignment of students to Korean middle school classrooms and show that the female students perform substantially better on standardized tests when assigned to female teachers; there is little effect onmale students.We find evidence that teacher behavior drives the increase in female students' achievement.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES

altmetric score

  • 42.966

author list (cited authors)

  • Lim, J., & Meer, J.

citation count

  • 53

complete list of authors

  • Lim, Jaegeum||Meer, Jonathan

publication date

  • January 2017