Lavy, Victor and Sand, Edith (2018) On the origins of the gender human capital gap : short and long term effect of teachers’ stereotypes. Journal of Public Economics, 167 . pp. 263-279. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.09.007

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Abstract

In this paper, we estimate the effect of primary school teachers’ gender biases on boys’ and girls’ academic achievements during middle and high school and on the choice of advanced level courses in math and sciences during high school. For identification, we rely on the random assignments of teachers and students to classes in primary schools. Our results suggest that teachers’ biases favoring boys have an asymmetric effect by gender— positive effect on boys’ achievements and negative effect on girls’. Such gender biases also impact students’ enrollment in advanced level math courses in high school—boys positively and girls negatively. These results suggest that teachers’ biased behavior at early stage of schooling have long run implications for occupational choices and earnings at adulthood, because enrollment in advanced courses in math and science in high school is a prerequisite for post-secondary schooling in engineering, computer science and so on. This impact is heterogeneous, being larger for children from families where the father is more educated than the mother and larger on girls from low socioeconomic background.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Elementary schools -- Ísrael , High schools -- Ísrael , Sexism -- Ísrael
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Public Economics
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0047-2727
Official Date:	November 2018
Dates:	Date Event November 2018 Published 21 October 2018 Available 12 September 2018 Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit:	9 August 2018
Volume:	167
Page Range:	pp. 263-279
DOI:	10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.09.007
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Publisher Statement:	© 2018, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:	Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID 323439 European Research Council http://viaf.org/viaf/130022607 UNSPECIFIED Makhon le-meḥḳar kalkali be-Yiśraʾel ʿal-shem Moris Falḳ http://viaf.org/viaf/133719220 UNSPECIFIED Israel Science Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003977
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