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The difference between girls and boys academic performance is a major issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Do boys and girls fair better with a teacher of their own gender? This paper investigates the presence of such ‘pupil-teacher gender interactions’ on scholastic performance. We use data...
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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-fulfilling prophecies. Our approach leverages a unique feature...
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and student achievement at the high school level. The availability of test scores in multiple subjects for each student … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document … -- contributes to achievement gaps in high school …
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matched student-school panel data covering the population of secondary school national exams over seven years. We then conduct …
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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-fulfilling prophecies. The identification strategy leverages...
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