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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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students in India. We measure teacher's bias through an index capturing teacher's subjective beliefs about the role of gender … the medium-performing students, having a female teacher significantly reduces the gender gap in math performance. As a …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227929
national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading … gender bias in math are more likely to select a science track in high school. …
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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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differences in TVA explain an important part of the gender gaps we observe on test scores and on postsecondary education … practices benefit students independently of their gender.Finally, we also find that female teachers are on average more …
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This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … level in India. We focus on the time period 1987 to 1999 and three services sectors - banking, insurance and … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant …
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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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We extend the analysis of early-emerging gender differences in academic achievement to include both (objective) test … favoring girls, and that the misalignment of grades and test scores can be linked to gender differences in non … strongest evidence of a gender gap appearing among whites. However, boys in all racial categories across all subject areas are …
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Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India … in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards …
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