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Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches / Jaegeum Lim, Jonathan Meer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lim, Jaegeum.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24128.
- NBER working paper series no. w24128
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- 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 having a female math teacher in 7th grade increases the likelihood that female students take higher-level math courses, aspire to a STEM degree, and attend a STEM-focused high school. These effects are driven by changes in students' attitudes and choices.
- Notes:
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- December 2017.
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