CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Diallo, Alfa |
|---|---|
| Title | The effect of teacher's gender on student's educational performance- An international evaluation |
| Summary | In this paper I investigate two questions. First, whether the quality of female or male teachers is better with respect to 8th grade students, and second, whether students with same sex teacher archive higher educational outcomes. For my estimation I use four waves of the TIMSS international dataset, which is a database that contains the test result of 8th grade children in mathematics and science. I investigate the two main questions of my paper, using twenty different European countries subjects. I use OLS and individual fixed effect regressions in order to answer the two main questions of the paper. The latter method is based on the idea to identify effects, from the individual test point variation across different subjects. The dataset is very well suited for this type of estimation, as the investigated subjects are very similar in nature and high in number. According to my results there is no economically relevant difference between men and women teachers. On the other there is a robust evidence, that having a same sex teacher can be beneficial, however the magnitude of this potential advantage is very heterogeneous across countries. |
| Supervisor | Hermann, Zoltán; Békés, Gábor |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/diallo_alfa.pdf |
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