The effects of parents’ gender stereotypes on children’s maths performance

Changhong Li, Wenlian Lin, Lanfang Deng and Hongyi Li

Applied Economics, 2024, vol. 56, issue 60, 9373-9392

Abstract: The role of gender stereotypes in students’ academic performance attracts increasing attention among economists. In this paper, we explore how gender stereotypes among parents can affect students’ maths performance. Using the data on junior high school students from the China Education Panel Survey, we find that when parents believe boys to be better than girls in maths, such a gender stereotype results in perceived difficulty in maths and poor maths performance among girls. Parental gender stereotyping does not change their allocation of educational resources, but rather shapes girls’ gender stereotypes and thereby lowers their academic performance. In contrast, we do not find any significantly negative effects of parental gender role stereotypes among boys.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2024.2302928

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