Discrimination in grading? Experimental evidence from primary school

This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. To this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a German native pupil, whereas others believe it was written by a pupil of Turkish origin. We find that essays obtain significantly lower grades and lower secondary school recommendations when bearing a Turkish sounding name.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Sprietsma, Maresa
Institutions:	Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Subject:	Experiment \| discrimination \| grading \| pupils with migration \| background

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	ZEW Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 09-074
Classification:	I20 - Education. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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