Discrimination in grading: Experimental evidence from primary school teachers

Empirical Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 523-538

  Sprietsma, Maresa ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Field experiment; Grading; Migrant background

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION; PRIMARY EDUCATION; RACIAL DISPARITY; SECONDARY EDUCATION;

EID: 84880846509     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-012-0609-x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Ammermüller A (2007) Poor background or low returns? Why immigrant students in Germany perform so poorly in the Programme for International Student Assessment. Education Economics 15(2): 215-230.
2. Anderson-Clark T, Green R, Henley T (2008) The relationship between first names and teacher expectations for achievement motivation. J Lang Soc Psychol 27(1): 94-99.
3. Bertrand M, Mullainathan S (2004) Are Emily and Greg more employable than lakisha and Jamal? A field experiment on labour market discrimination. Am Econ Rev 94(4): 991-1013.
4. Card D (1999) The causal effect of education on earnings. The Handbook of Labor Economics, vol~3A. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
5. Carlsson M, Rooth DO (2007) Evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Swedisch labor market using experimental data. Labour Econ 14: 716-729.
6. Casey T, Dustmann C (2008) Intergenerational transmission of language capital and economic outcomes. J Hum Resour 43(3): 660-687.
7. Casteel CA (1998) Teacher-student interactions and race in integrated classrooms. J Educ Res 92(2): 115-120.
8. Darley J, Gross P (2005) A hypothesis-confirming bias in labelling effects. Social cognition: key readings. Taylor and Francis Ltd, Ann Arbor.
9. De Groot M (2004) Optimal statistical decisions. Wiley Classics Library, New York.
10. Dee T (2005) A teacher like me: does race, ethnicity, or gender matter?. Am Econ Rev 95(2): 158-165.
11. Ferguson RF (2003) Teachers' perceptions and expectations and the black-white test score gap. Urban Educ 38(4): 460-507.
12. Figlio D (2005) Names, expectations and the black-white test score gap. NBER Working Paper 11195.
13. Hanna R, Linden L (2009) Measuring discrimination in education. NBER Working Paper 15057.
14. Harari H, McDavid J (1973) Name stereotypes and teachers' expectations. J Educ Psychol 65(2): 222-225.
15. Harmon C, Oosterbeek H, Walker I (2003) The returns to education: microeconomics. J Econ Surv 17(2): 115-155.
16. Hayes A, Krippendorff K (2007) Answering the call for a standard reliability measure for coding data. Commun Methods Meas 1(1): 77-89.
17. Hofmann W, Gawronski B, Gschwendner T, Le H, Schmitt M (2005) A meta-analysis on the correlation between the implicit association test and explicit self-report measures. Personality Soc Psychol Bull 31: 1369-1385.
18. Kaas L, Manger C (2010) Ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market: a field experiment. IZA Discussion Paper 4741.
19. Kristen C (2006) Ethnische diskriminierung in der grundschule. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 58(1).
20. Lavy V (2008) Do gender stereotypes reduce girls' or boys' human capital outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment. J Public Econ 92(10-11): 2083-2105.
21. Lebrecht S, Pierce L, Tarr M, Tanaka J (2009) Perceptual other-race training reduces implicit racial bias. PLoS ONE 4(1). doi: 10. 1371/journal. pone. 0004215.
22. Lindahl E (2007) Comparing teachers' assessments and national test results: evidence from Sweden. Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation Working Paper 24.
23. Murnane R, Willett J, Levy F (1995) The growing importance of cognitive skills in wage determination. Review of Economics and Statistics 77(2): 251-266.
24. OECD (2006) Where immigrant students succeed: a comparative review of performance and engagement in PISA 2003, Programme for International Student Assessment edn. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris.
25. Papay J, Murnane R, Willett J (2011) How performance information affects human-capital investment decisions: the impact of test-score labels on educational outcomes. NBER Working Paper 17120.
26. Rosenthal R, Jacobson L (1968) Pygmalion in the classroom: teacher expectations and student intellectual development. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.
27. Rudman L, Ashmore R, Gary M (2001) 'Unlearning' automatic biases: the malleability of implicit prejudice and stereotypes. J Personality Soc Psychol 81(5): 856-868.
28. Seraydaran L, Busse T (1981) First name stereotypes and essay grading. J Psychol 108(2): 253-257.
29. Statistisches Bundesamt (2008-2009) Bildung und Kultur: Allgemeinbildende Schulen. Fachserie 11(1).
30. Tenenbaum HR, Ruck MD (2007) Are teachers' expectations different for racial minority than for european american students? A meta-analysis. J Educ Psychol 99(2): 253-273.
31. van Ewijk R (2011) Same work, lower grade? Student ethnicity and teachers' subjective assessments. Econ Educ Rev 30: 1045-1058.
32. Wagner U, Christ O, Pettigrew T, Stellmacher J, Wolf C (2006) Prejudice and minority proportion: contact instead of threat effects. Soc Psychol Q 69(4): 380-390.