The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches : Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea

Jaegeum Lim, Jonathan Meer

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 on male students

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Year of publication:	July 2015
Authors:	Lim, Jaegeum
Other Persons:	Meer, Jonathan (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Südkorea \| South Korea \| Geschlecht \| Gender \| Bildungsverhalten \| Educational behaviour \| Lehrkräfte \| Teaching profession \| Schüler \| Pupils \| Kausalanalyse \| Causality analysis

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w21407
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers.
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w21407 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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