Does student-teacher race match affect course grades?

Erica Harbatkin

Economics of Education Review, 2021, vol. 81, issue C

Abstract: A growing body of research has found that student-teacher race match is associated with higher test scores, teacher expectations, and teacher perceptions of students. This paper contributes to the student-teacher race match literature by investigating the effect of race match on course grades. To the extent that race match is associated with higher course grades for minority students, a more diverse teacher workforce is one mechanism that may help to narrow the achievement gap. Using a series of fixed effects models exploiting within-student variation across year and subject matter, I find that having a race-matched teacher is associated with a small but significant increase in course grade, on average. The positive effect of race match is driven largely by the experience of Black students.

Keywords: Student-teacher assignment; Minority students; Student-teacher race match; Minority teachers; Achievement gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102081

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