The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
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. The authors 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 on male students. The evidence shows that teacher behavior drives the increase in female students’ achievement.
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Meer, Jonathan; Lim, Jaegeum (2015). The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea. Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /199434.