The idea that students benefit from same-sex teachers has motivated policies around the world aimed at reducing gender …

design, we show that high-achieving classrooms improve math test scores by 23 percent of a standard deviation, with effects …

scores. Chapter 2 investigates the impact of four teacher characteristics - whether teachers hold a Master's degree, a … subject-specific qualification, a major in education, or their level of experience - on student science test scores in ten … different countries. Chapter 3 shows that teacher subject-specific qualifications positively affect student science test scores …

and reading gender gaps. We use rich administrative data from Chile, that allows us to follow teachers through different …This paper assesses the effect of teachers on the gender gap in student test scores. It combines different empirical … reduce the gender gap in math by 16.9%. The reduction in the math gender gap is greater in voucher schools (16.1%), among …

reform of education standards in math and English has negative spillovers on student achievement in science. Finally, Chapter … not only affect religiosity and gender role attitudes, but also affects the high-stakes choices of getting married, having … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

practices benefit students independently of their gender.Finally, we also find that female teachers are on average more … effective at teaching female students, and that math teachers tend to be biased in favor of male students … differences in TVA explain an important part of the gender gaps we observe on test scores and on postsecondary education …

I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self … partially driven by a lower self-confidence on own math ability of girls exposed to gender biased teachers. The findings are …

as girls on reading, math and science tests are nevertheless graded less favorably by their teachers, but this less … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … every case except for black fifth-graders. Boys score at least as well on math and science tests as girls, with the …