Journal
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW
Volume 52, Issue -, Pages 209-224Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.03.002
Keywords
Educational attainment; Expectations; Stigmatization; Mismatch
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Funding
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- National Science Foundation under NSF [DRL-0941014]
- Direct For Education and Human Resources
- Division Of Research On Learning [0941014] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Teachers are an important source of information for traditionally disadvantaged students. However, little is known about how teachers form expectations and whether they are systematically biased. We investigate whether student teacher demographic mismatch affects high school teachers' expectations for students' educational attainment. Using a student fixed effects strategy that exploits expectations data from two teachers per student, we find that non-black teachers of black students have significantly lower expectations than do black teachers. These effects are larger for black male students and math teachers. Our findings add to a growing literature on the role of limited information in perpetuating educational attainment gaps. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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