TY - JOUR T1 - The Impact of Teacher–Student Gender Matches JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 979 LP - 997 DO - 10.3368/jhr.52.4.1215-7585R1 VL - 52 IS - 4 AU - Jaegeum Lim AU - Jonathan Meer Y1 - 2017/10/02 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/4/979.abstract N2 - 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. ER -