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On the origins of the gender human capital gap : short and long term effect of teachers’ stereotypes

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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 ISSN 0047-2727.

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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:
DateEvent
November 2018Published
21 October 2018Available
12 September 2018Accepted
Volume: 167
Page Range: pp. 263-279
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.09.007
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): © 2018, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 9 August 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 21 October 2020
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
323439European Research Councilhttp://viaf.org/viaf/130022607
UNSPECIFIEDMakhon le-meḥḳar kalkali be-Yiśraʾel ʿal-shem Moris Falḳhttp://viaf.org/viaf/133719220
UNSPECIFIEDIsrael Science Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003977
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