Considerable research has examined the positive educational experiences of students of
color assigned to teachers of the same race or ethnicity. Underlying this research is the …

Background/Context Over the past three decades, teacher turnover has increased
substantially in US public schools, especially in those serving large portions of low-income …

We study the effect of physician workforce diversity on the demand for preventive care
among African American men. In an experiment in Oakland, California, we randomize black …

I study whether exposure to teacher stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science
Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender …

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

Preschool expulsions and the disproportionate expulsion of Black boys have gained
attention in recent years, but little has been done to understand the underlying causes …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

Using student-level administrative data from North Carolina, we explore whether exposure
to same-race teachers affects the rate at which Black students receive exclusionary …

The demographic divide between teachers and students is of growing public concern.
However, few studies have explicitly addressed the common argument that students, and …

Teachers are an important source of information for traditionally disadvantaged students.
However, little is known about how teachers form expectations and whether they are …