randomized experiment, we look at the effects of having a female teacher on the math test scores of students in primary school …. We find that female students who were assigned to a female teacher without a strong math background suffered from lower … (marginally) positive for female students who were assigned to a female teacher with a strong math background. Finally, we do not …

TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged … neighborhoods. While we find that TFA teachers neither help nor hurt students in terms of reading test scores, we find positive and …, although the FEQR estimates for female students are two to three times larger than for male students.In addition, we find that …