science and mathematics. One major class of explanations for these gaps involves the gender-based interactions between … matter is limited and contradictory. In this study, I present new empirical evidence on whether assignment to a same-gender … these data indicate that assignment to a same-gender teacher significantly improves the achievement of both girls and boys …

developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in …-grade and student gender by grade fixed effects, we find that both male and female teachers are more effective at teaching … students of their own gender; (3) However, female teachers are more effective overall, resulting in girls' test scores …

Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers' gender biases on boys' and girls' academic … teachers' biases favoring boys have an asymmetric effect by gender-- positive effect on boys' achievements and negative effect … on girls'. Such gender biases also impact students' enrollment in advanced level math courses in high school …

-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. A series of robustness and placebo tests …

on immigrant status or gender. By developing a new estimator, we show that receiving a higher grade leads to far …