Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245717 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14666
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the link between the subject choices of German students in upper secondary school and teacher gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and they indicate that girls respond more strongly than boys to same-sex role models. While the probability to choose German as an advanced course in upper secondary school increases to a rather similar (i.e., symmetric) extent for both girls and boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to choosing math on the advanced level.
Subjects: 
gender
education
STEM
subject choices
JEL: 
I21
J16
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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