Do homeroom teachers affect students’ academic achievement in China’s middle schools?

Tianheng Wang and Dan Yang

Applied Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 28, issue 4, 329-333

Abstract: While the effect of teacher quality on students’ achievement is widely documented in the literature, relatively little is known about the impact of teachers’ non-instructional role. By exploiting the random assignment of students and homeroom teachers to classrooms within the same grade and school, the paper finds that students’ test scores for a subject can be improved if the subject is taught by a homeroom teacher. The mechanism analysis suggests that the impact could be driven by the better interaction between homeroom teachers and students.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1752897

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