Who believes in me? The effect of student–teacher demographic match on teacher expectations

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 209-224

  Gershenson, Seth ^a,b   Holt, Stephen B ^a   Papageorge, Nicholas W ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational attainment; Expectations; Mismatch; Stigmatization

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; STUDENT;

EID: 84991086163     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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