Racial Discrimination in Grading: Evidence from Brazil

Fernando Botelho, Ricardo A. Madeira and Marcos A. Rangel

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, vol. 7, issue 4, 37-52

Abstract: We investigate whether racial discrimination in the form of biased assessment of students is prevalent within Brazilian schools. Evidence is drawn from unique administrative data pertaining to eighth-grade students and educators. Holding constant performance in blindly-scored tests of proficiency and behavioral traits we find that blacks have lower teacher-assigned math grades than their white classmates. Heterogeneity in differentials provides evidence both of robustness with respect to omission biases and of compatibility with predictions from models of statistical discrimination. (JEL I21, I24, J15, O15)

JEL-codes: I21 I24 J15 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: DOI: 10.1257/app.20140352
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