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ERIC Number: ED672143
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Nov
Pages: 52
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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.
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
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: China
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