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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 … is largest in subjects where teachers have more discretion in grading. While teacher-assigned grades on the matriculation …
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that are likely valued by teachers. These differentials are larger for male students and those attending urban schools … market outcomes, which are all well know elements for the economic assimilation of immigrants. …
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of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant … stronger stereotypes give lower grades to immigrants compared to natives with the same performance. Literature teachers do not … differentially grade immigrants based on their own stereotypes. Finally, we share teachers' own IAT score with them, randomizing the …
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Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an … possibility that immigrant and native teachers may be assigned to different types of schools, and even within schools, to … different types of students, two estimation strategies are employed. The first estimates the immigrant teacher impact by …
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school. Exploring within-student variation in assignment to teachers, I find that teachers who are immigrants or descendants …This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary … of immigrants significantly increase the reading comprehension of students. The effect is strongest for foreign origin …
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Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2023 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
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of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant … stronger stereotypes give lower grades to immigrants compared to natives with the same performance.Literature teachers do not … differentially grade immigrants based on their own stereotypes. Finally, we share teachers' own IAT score with them, randomizing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906489
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 … is largest in subjects where teachers have more discretion in grading. While teacher-assigned grades on the matriculation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533981
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 … is largest in subjects where teachers have more discretion in grading. While teacher-assigned grades on the matriculation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534443
This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation in the share of immigrant children between...
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