Where the Girls Are Not: Households, Teachers, and the Gender Gap in Early Math Achievement
We study the determinants of math achievement among children in early elementary school using data from a unique experiment. We find steep socioeconomic gradients and a substantial boy-girl gap in math test scores. However, among children of mothers with university education, there is no difference in the math achievement of girls and boys, which suggests that maternal education specifically, and home environments generally, are important. There is no evidence that teacher quality affects the boy-girl differences in early test scores, regardless of whether we measure quality on the basis of classroom effects, teacher effects, or the observed interactions between teachers and children.
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| Format: | Working Papers biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Inter-American Development Bank
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| Subjects: | Gender Gap, Educational Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Gender and Education, Teaching of Mathematics, Educational Attainment, Child Development, children;early math achievement;girls;gender gap;math achievement, |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000700 https://publications.iadb.org/en/where-girls-are-not-households-teachers-and-gender-gap-early-math-achievement |
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| Summary: | We study the determinants of math achievement among children in early elementary school using data from a unique experiment. We find steep socioeconomic gradients and a substantial boy-girl gap in math test scores. However, among children of mothers with university education, there is no difference in the math achievement of girls and boys, which suggests that maternal education specifically, and home environments generally, are important. There is no evidence that teacher quality affects the boy-girl differences in early test scores, regardless of whether we measure quality on the basis of classroom effects, teacher effects, or the observed interactions between teachers and children. |
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