This paper examines the role of teacher gender in education production. We extend student outcomes from traditionally … teachers in China, we focus on schools in which student-teacher assignments are random. Our results show that having a female …' beliefs about commonly held gender stereotypes and increases their motivation to learn …

Previous studies have often emphasized the gender effects of individual teachers but have paid less attention to the … gender composition of teacher teams. We examine the effects of teacher gender composition on the noncognitive characteristics … of students by use of randomly assigned cross-sectional data of middle school students in China. Our results show that …

We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … strongest evidence of a gender gap appearing among whites. However, boys in all racial categories across all subject areas are …