Racial Discrimination in Grading: Evidence from Brazil

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Botelho, Fernando; Madeira, Ricardo A.; Rangel, Marcos A.
• 署名单位: Universidade de Sao Paulo; Duke University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20140352
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 37-52
• 关键词: primary-school; test-scores; GENDER; teachers

摘要

We investigate whether racial discrimination in the form of biased assessment of students is prevalent within Brazilian schools. Evidence is drawn from unique administrative data pertaining to eighth-grade students and educators. Holding constant performance in blindly-scored tests of proficiency and behavioral traits we find that blacks have lower teacher-assigned math grades than their white classmates. Heterogeneity in differentials provides evidence both of robustness with respect to omission biases and of compatibility with predictions from models of statistical discrimination.