Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-gender Contact, and Student Achievement

Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer and Daniel L. Chen
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Sultan Mehmood: New Economic School, Moscow
Shaheen Naseer: University of Oxford
Daniel L. Chen: TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: We provide experimental evidence of teacher-to-student transmission of gender attitudes in Pakistan. We randomly show teachers a pro-women's rights visual narrative. Treated teachers increase their and students' support for women's rights, unbiasedness in gender IATs, and willingness to petition parliament for greater gender equality. Students improve coordination and cooperation with the opposite gender. Effects are larger when teachers teach a gender-rights curriculum. Mathematics achievement increases for classrooms assigned to form mixed-gender study groups treated with an intense program (visual narrative and curriculum), while no significant effects appear in same-sex study groups. Gender attitudes are transmissible, and cooperation improves student outcomes.

Date: 2025
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Published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17 (3), pp.107-130. ⟨10.1257/pol.20230620⟩

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DOI: 10.1257/pol.20230620

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