ERIC Number: ED672143
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Nov
Pages: 52
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Stay-at-Home Peer Mothers and Gender Norms: Short-Run Effects on Educational Outcomes. EdWorkingPaper No. 22-672
Liwen Chen; Bobby W. Chung; Guangwha Wang
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Increased exposure to gender-role information affects a girl's educational performance. Utilizing the classroom randomization in Chinese middle schools, we find that the increased presence of stay-at-home peer mothers significantly reduces a girl's performance in mathematics. This exposure also cultivates gendered attitudes towards mathematics and STEM professions. The influence of peer mothers increases with network density and when the girl has a distant relationship with her parents. As falsification tests against unobserved confounding factors, we find that the exposure to stay-at-home peer mothers does not affect boys' performance, nor do we find that stay-at-home peer fathers affect girls' outcomes.
Descriptors: Sex Role, Mothers, Womens Education, Females, Middle School Students, Parent Influence, Mathematics, STEM Careers, Peer Influence, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Role Models, Economic Factors, Social Influences, Mathematics Achievement, Student Attitudes, Expectation, Parent Attitudes, Student Characteristics
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: annenberg@brown.edu; Web site: https://annenberg.brown.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: China
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A