Lavy, Victor and Sand, Edith (2015) On the origins of gender human capital gaps : short and long term consequences of teachers’ stereotypical biases. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1085). (Unpublished)

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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:	Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Mathematics -- Study and teaching, Mathematics teachers, Sex differences
Series Name:	Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS)
Publisher:	University of Warwick. Department of Economics
Place of Publication:	Coventry
ISSN:	0083-7350
Official Date:	December 2015
Dates:	Date Event December 2015 Published
Number:	1085
Number of Pages:	42
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Date of first compliant deposit:	27 January 2016
Funder:	University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), European Research Council (ERC)
Grant number:	323439 (ERC)

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