A prominent gender stereotype claims that "boys are better at learning mathematics than girls". Confronted with such a parental attitude, how does this affect the wellbeing of 11 - 18 years old students in Chinese middle schools? While wellbeing has been often shown to be not much gender...

Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect students’ educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more...