Discrimination in grading? Experimental evidence from primary school

Maresa Sprietsma

No 09-074, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Experiment; discrimination; grading; pupils with migration; background (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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