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gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school. … national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading …
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I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects … student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are … assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes. Teachers' stereotypes induce girls to underperform in math and self …
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This paper assesses the effect of teachers on the gender gap in student test scores. It combines different empirical … and reading gender gaps. We use rich administrative data from Chile, that allows us to follow teachers through different … reduce the gender gap in math by 16.9%. The reduction in the math gender gap is greater in voucher schools (16.1%), among …
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We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to...
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We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from blind graders. This effect is almost entirely driven by...
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with two potential explanations: first, standardized tests may exhibit bias against Black students, and second, teachers … may inflate assessments of Black students relative to White students due to social desirability bias. …
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We develop and estimate a joint model of the education and teacher-expectation production functions that identifies both the distribution of biases in teacher expectations and the impact of those biases on student outcomes via self-fulfilling prophecies. The identification strategy leverages...
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We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents' investments in their children. Exploiting a unique, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to classes, we show that parents react to more qualified teachers by increasing their financial...
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We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback....
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India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls’ attitude …
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