The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan
• 署名单位: Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/677391
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 63-89
• 关键词: mathematics anxiety; instructor gender; role-model; elementary; RACE; stereotypes; ETHNICITY; women; me

摘要

Using data from a randomized experiment, we find that having a female teacher lowers the math test scores of female primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Moreover, we do not find any effect of having a female teacher on male students' test scores (math or reading) or female students' reading test scores, which seems to rule out explanations pertaining to the unobserved quality differences between male and female teachers. Finally, this negative effect seems to persist only for female students who were assigned to a female teacher with a limited math background.