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In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...
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We exploit data from middle schools in Seoul, South Korea, where students and teachers are randomly assigned to classrooms, and find that female students taught by a female versus a male teacher score higher on standardized tests compared to male students even five years later. We also find that...
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within the classroom. Do teachers give better grades to children of their own race, ethnicity, or gender? A U.S. nationally … this question. I look at the effect of being assessed by a same-race or same-gender teacher conditional on test scores … gender. This effect seems to be driven largely by the differential assessments given to non-hispanic black and hispanic …
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