Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-gender Contact, and Student Achievement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mehmood, Sultan; Naseer, Shaheen; Chen, Daniel L.
• 署名单位: New Economic School; University of Oxford; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20230620
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 107-130
• 关键词: implicit association test; performance; mathematics; diversity; education; schools; women; BIAS

摘要

We provide experimental evidence of teacher-to-student transmission of gender attitudes in Pakistan. We randomly show teachers a pro-women's rights visual narrative. Treated teachers increase their and students' support for women's rights, unbiasedness in gender implicit association tests (IATs), and willingness to petition parliament for greater gender equality. Students improve coordination and cooperation with the opposite gender. Effects are larger when teachers teach a gender-rights curriculum. Mathematics achievement increases for classrooms assigned to form mixed-gender study groups treated with an intense program (visual narrative and curriculum), while absent in same-sex study groups. Gender attitudes are transmissible and cooperation improves student outcomes. (JEL I21, I28, J16, K38, O15)