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Title: The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students' Lifetime Well-Being
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2022
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Abstract: It is widely believed that female students benefit from being taught by female teachers, particularly when those teachers serve as counter-stereotypical role models. We study education in rural areas of the US circa 1940--a setting in which there were few professional female exemplars other than teachers--and find that female students were more successful when their primary-school teachers were disproportionately female. Impacts are lifelong: female students taught by female teachers were more likely to move up the educational ladder by completing high school and attending college, and had higher lifetime family income and increased longevity.
Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4210017
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Authors: Card, David; Domnisoru, Ciprian; Sanders, Seth; Taylor, Lowell J.; Udalova, Victoria
Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series
Publication Number: w30430
Institution: NBER
Pages: 1-78
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Gender
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