A Teacher Like Me: Does Race, Ethnicity, or Gender Matter?

By Thomas S. Dee. 2005

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Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Why are there so few ethnic minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology? Challenges to inclusion and the role of sense of belonging (2020, background): “When students see themselves reflected in the composition of faculty, they are inspired to challenge themselves and achieve higher standards of performance (Dee 2005; Hurtado and Alvarado 2013).”
The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size (2008, positive): “Fur thermore, a recent re-analysis of these data (Dee & West, 2008) found that these treatment effects were limited to the fourth-grade initiative measure in specifications that addressed several shortcomings of the original evaluations.(6) The lack of evidence on whether smaller classes improve non”
Role models, school improvement and the ‘gender gap’—do men bring out the best in boys and women the best in girls?1 (2008, background): “Dee has followed up many of the issues raised by Ehrenberg and his colleagues in two recent articles (Dee, 2004 , 2005 ).”
Do Differences in Schools' Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries (2015, background): “For example, Grogger (1996) and Eide and Showalter (1998) estimated the effect of the length of the school year in the United States and found insignificant effects, perhaps due to limited variation in the length of the school year there or the omission of other variables.”
To Be Alone or in a Group: An Exploration Into How the School-Based Experiences Differ for Black Male Teachers Across One Urban School District (2018, background): “Consequently, as Dee (2005) concluded, “The most widely recommended policy response to these sorts of effects is arguably the ones that involve recruiting underrepresented teachers” (p. 8).”
Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap. NBER Working Paper No. 14959. (2009, neutral): “Additionally, each student receives a monthly stipend of 6See Nixon and Robinson (1999), Ehrenberg, Goldhaber, and Brewer (1995), Dee (2005), Dee (2007), Holmlund and Sund (2007), Carrington, Tymms, and Merrell (2005), Carrington, Tymms, and Merrell (2008), Lahelma (2000) and Lavy and Schlosser…”
Working for the Woman? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap (2007, background): “…race/ethnicity and gender, but the evidence that this results in better educational outcomes is limited and mixed (Butler and Christensen 2003; Dee 2005; Downey and Pribesh 2004; Ehrenberg, Goldhaber, and Brewer 1995).22 As with our examination of labor markets, these studies confront…”
On the origins of gender gaps in human capital: Short- and long-term consequences of teachers' biases (2018, background): “See also Dee (2005) and Gershenson et al (2015) who highlight the role of teachers’ perceptions and expectations and examine how they are affected by student-teacher demographic mismatch.”
How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement? Working Paper 2. Revised. (2007, positive): “In addition, in light of the work by Dee (2005) we include a variable indicating whether or not the teacher is the same race as the student.”
The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement (2010, neutral): “Dee (2005); Dee and West (2008)).”
Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement (2020, positive): “7 This article also contributes to the recent and growing literature on the impact of teachers’ discretion in grading on students’ success (Apperson, Bueno, & Sass, 2016; Dee, Dobbie, Jacob, & Rockoff, 2016; Diamond & Persson, 2016). Papageorge, Gershenson, and Kyungmin (2016) also develop a structu”
Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias* (2019, background): “However, other studies find that having a teacher of own gender helps improve performance, especially at college level (Dee, 2005; Carrell et al., 2010).”
The Reversal of Gender Inequalities in Higher Education (2008, background): “Dee (2004, 2005, 2007) shows from a national database that teachers view their students more positively if they are of the same sex and the same ethnic/minority background as them, especially if they come from the most disadvantaged backgrounds (or the South of the United States), and that students…”
Teacher Expectations Matter (2016, neutral): “…teacher expectations matter in the sense that randomly assigned biases 2Previous research has leveraged this feature to estimate the effect of student-teacher racial match on teachers’ perceptions and expectations via student-fixed effects models (Dee, 2005; Gershenson, Holt, & Papageorge, 2016).”