The Effects of Teacher-Student Demographic Matching on Social-Emotional Learning
Educational Policy: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy and Practice
Published online on November 24, 2025
Abstract
Educational Policy, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 711-736, September 2026.
A growing body of research shows that students benefit when they demographically match their teachers. However, little is known about how matching affects social-emotional development. We use student-fixed effects to exploit changes over time in the ...
A growing body of research shows that students benefit when they demographically match their teachers. However, little is known about how matching affects social-emotional development. We use student-fixed effects to exploit changes over time in the ...