@EdWorkingPaper{ai19-43,
title = "The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers",
author = "Seth Gershenson, Cassandra M. D. Hart, Joshua Hyman, Constance Lindsay, Nicholas W. Papageorge",
institution = "Annenberg Institute at Brown University",
number = "43",
year = "2019",
month = "Apr",
URL = "http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai19-43",
abstract = {We examine the long-run impacts of having a same-race teacher. First, we leverage data from the Tennessee STAR class-size experiment to show that black students randomly assigned to a black teacher in grades K-3 are 5 percentage points (7%) more likely to graduate from high school and 4 percentage points (13%) more likely to enroll in college than their same-school, same-race peers not assigned to a black teacher. Second, we replicate these results in North Carolina using quasi-experimental methods. Finally, we formally define "role model effects" as information provision, which facilitates an exploration of possible mechanisms that drive these results.},
}