Gender Stereotypes in the Classroom and Effects on Achievement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Alan, Sule; Ertac, Seda; Mumcu, Ipek
• 署名单位: University of Essex; Koc University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00756
• 发表日期: 2018-12
• 页码: 876-890
• 关键词: student-achievement; role attitudes; instructor gender; teachers; outcomes; transmission; elementary; ECONOMICS; QUALITY; CHOICE

摘要

We study the effect of elementary school teachers' beliefs about gender roles on student achievement. We exploit a natural experiment where teachers are prevented from self-selecting into schools, and, conditional on school, students are allocated to teachers randomly. We show that girls who are taught for longer than a year by teachers with traditional gender views have lower performance in objective math and verbal tests, and this effect is amplified with longer exposure to the same teacher. We find no effect on boys. We show that the effect is partly mediated by teachers' transmitting traditional beliefs to girls.