TY - JOUR AB - A growing body of research shows that students benefit when they are demographically similar to their teachers. However, less is known about how matching affects social-emotional development. We investigate the effect of teacher-student race and gender matching for middle school students in six charter management organizations. Using a student fixed effects strategy exploiting changes over time in the proportion of demographic matching in a school-grade, we estimate matching’s effect on self-reports of interpersonal and intrapersonal social-emotional skills, test scores, and behavioral outcomes. We find improvements for Black and female students in interpersonal self-management and grit when they are matched to demographically similar teachers. We also find demographic matching leads to reductions in absences for Black students and improved math test scores for females. Our findings add to the emerging teacher diversity literature by showing its benefits for Black and female students during a critical stage of social-emotional development in their lives. AU - Scherer, Ethan AU - Cleveland, Christopher DA - February, 2022 DO - 10.26300/3xq6-4k05 PY - 2022 ST - The Effects of Teacher-Student Demographic Matching on Social-Emotional Learning T2 - EdWorkingPapers.com TI - The Effects of Teacher-Student Demographic Matching on Social-Emotional Learning UR - https://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai21-399 ER -