Impact of teacher gender and role models on student outcomes in India

Eshita Goswami ()
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Eshita Goswami: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

Abstract: This study estimates the impact of teacher gender and tests for role model effects on various student outcomes such as test scores, transferrable skills, attendance and attitudes. We perform the analysis for subjects, such as Maths and English, which are male-dominated and female-dominated respectively as per traditional beliefs. We find that there is a presence of female role models when females teach English. However, female Maths teachers negatively affect students' outcomes. We attribute this to students' traditional perceptions regarding females being worse Maths teachers than males. We also perform a sub-sample analysis for co-ed sections and find that the role model effects get diluted, attributing to the influence of opposite gender peers in these sections.

Keywords: Gender; Role Models; Test Scores; Attendance; Attitudes; Co-Educational Schools; Single-Sex Schools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2024-08
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