Re-Analysing the Transmission of Gender Attitudes from Teachers to Students: A Computational and Robustness Reproduction

Marc Bachmeier, Timo Haller, Jan Marcus, Victor Rudakov and Larissa Simões

No 299, I4R Discussion Paper Series from The Institute for Replication (I4R)

Abstract: This replication study evaluates the computational and robustness reproducibility of the main findings in Mehmood et al. (2025), which investigates the transmission of gender-equitable attitudes from teachers to students in Pakistan by means of a randomized controlled trial with four treatment groups and a control group. Using the authors' replication package, we perform a successful computational reproduction of all reported coefficients and p-values, starting from the provided analysis data set. We then perform four sets of robustness checks: using an alternative way of constructing a key outcome variable, including different sets of control variables, reweighting the student-level regressions, and applying a difference-in-differences approach based on pre-treatment outcomes. Overall, the main findings are highly robust to a wide range of reasonable alternative specifications and analytic choices. In particular, across the 90 robustness specifications we estimate, 94% reproduce the original sign and statistical significance of the reported effects. For some outcomes, we obtain considerably larger effect sizes, further underscoring the importance of the transmission of gender-equitable attitudes.

Keywords: Robustness reproduction; RCT; women's rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J16 K38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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