We examine the impact of having a same-race teacher on students' long-run educational attainment. Leveraging random … student-teacher pairings in the Tennessee STAR class-size experiment, we find that black students randomly assigned to a black … teacher in grades K-3 are 5 percentage points (7%) more likely to graduate from high school and 4 percentage points (13%) more …

We develop and estimate a joint model of the education and teacher-expectation production functions that identifies … both the distribution of biases in teacher expectations and the impact of those biases on student outcomes via self … educational expectations for each student. Identification of causal effects exploits teacher disagreements about the same student …