Table 1

Randomness Check

Male (1)Married Parents (2)Dad BA Degree (3)Mom BA Degree (4)Owning Home (5)Internet Home (6)
Panel A: Test for Student Assignment
Kolmogorov–Smirnov test (Number of failed/total tests)7/22918/3430/3430/3419/3490/336
χ2 goodness of fit test (Number of failed/total tests)9/22916/3439/34314/34115/3498/336
Panel B: Test for Teacher Assignment
Female teacher0.018−0.0320.0040.033−0.016−0.010
(0.013)(0.018)(0.019)(0.023)(0.016)(0.015)
Teacher experience0.000−0.0010.0020.0000.001−0.001
(0.001)(0.001)(0.001)(0.001)(0.001)(0.001)
Graduate degree−0.0140.0140.0290.0450.0280.026
(0.020)(0.017)(0.019)(0.019)(0.019)(0.017)
Teacher college graduate−0.019−0.0120.0000.0080.003−0.013
(0.020)(0.014)(0.014)(0.014)(0.016)(0.015)
Teacher union member−0.0080.014−0.012−0.000−0.0000.018
(0.026)(0.018)(0.023)(0.025)(0.017)(0.019)
N530856848720909671
R20.2100.1840.0640.2210.0530.277
  • Notes: Each column represents a separate regression. The dependent variable is the empirical p-value from the resampling described in the text, for student characteristics, which are male student, having married parents, having father with BA degree or higher, having mother with BA degree or higher, owning their home, and having access to Internet home in Columns 1–6, respectively. Independent variables are teacher gender, teacher experience measured in years, dummies for graduate degree, teacher’s college graduate, and teacher’s union member. Each specification controls for subject and school fixed effects. Standard errors in parentheses are clustered at the school level. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov and v2 goodness of fit test results indicate the number of tests of the uniformity of the distribution of p-values that failed at the 5 percent level. p < 0.05, *p < 0.01, **p < 0.001.