Gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students: Evidence from Sweden

摘要: This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers students for school performance in Swedish, English Mathematics. School leaving certificates assigned by teacher is compared with results on comprehensive national tests. The analysis based data grade 9 (age 16) from Sweden. I find that a student likely to obtain better test scores Mathematics, when share same as increases. Correspondingly, minority students, average, positive same-gender effect counteracted negative assessment effect. That is, conditional scores, are less generous than opposite-gender assessing students’ performance. In Swedish no statistically significant effects found.