The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students' Lifetime Well-Being / David Card, Ciprian Domnisoru, Seth G. Sanders, Lowell Taylor, Victoria Udalova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Card, David.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Domnisoru, Ciprian.

Sanders, Seth G.

Taylor, Lowell.

Udalova, Victoria.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30430.

NBER working paper series no. w30430

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.

Summary:

It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than teachers--and find that female students were more successful when their primary-school teachers were disproportionately female. Impacts are lifelong: female students taught by female teachers were more likely to move up the educational ladder by completing high school and attending college, and had higher lifetime family income and increased longevity.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2022.