PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lim, Jaegeum
AU  - Meer, Jonathan
TI  - The Impact of Teacher–Student Gender Matches
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.52.4.1215-7585R1
DP  - 2017 Oct 02
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 979--997
VI  - 52
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/4/979.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/4/979.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2017 Oct 02; 52
AB  - Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but systematic sorting of students into classrooms makes it difficult to identify causal effects. We use the random assignment of students to Korean middle school classrooms and show that the female students perform substantially better on standardized tests when assigned to female teachers; there is little effect on male students. We find evidence that teacher behavior drives the increase in female students’ achievement.