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Racial Discrimination in Grading: Evidence from Brazil

Published:2015-10-01 Issue:4 Volume:7 Page:37-52
ISSN:1945-7782
Container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Author:

Botelho Fernando¹,Madeira Ricardo A.¹,Rangel Marcos A.²

Affiliation:

1. University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto 908, São Paulo-SP 05508-010 (e-mail: , and ).

2. Duke University, 302 Towerview Drive, Box 90312, Durham, NC 27708 (e-mail: ).

Abstract

We investigate whether racial discrimination in the form of biased assessment of students is prevalent within Brazilian schools. Evidence is drawn from unique administrative data pertaining to eighth-grade students and educators. Holding constant performance in blindly-scored tests of proficiency and behavioral traits we find that blacks have lower teacher-assigned math grades than their white classmates. Heterogeneity in differentials provides evidence both of robustness with respect to omission biases and of compatibility with predictions from models of statistical discrimination. (JEL I21, I24, J15, O15)

Publisher

American Economic Association

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/app.20140352

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