Discrimination in grading: experimental evidence from primary school teachers

Empirical Economics - Tập 45 - Trang 523-538 - 2012
Maresa Sprietsma1
1Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany

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This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. For 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 the same essays obtain significantly worse grades and lower secondary school recommendations when bearing a Turkish sounding name.

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