PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jaegeum Lim
AU  - Jonathan Meer
TI  - The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.52.4.1215-7585R1
DP  - 2017 Feb 06
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 1215-7585R1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2017/02/01/jhr.52.4.1215-7585R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2017/02/01/jhr.52.4.1215-7585R1.full
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.