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Male students face discrimination in every subject (except foreign language) by public high school teachers

Topic: Education

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Citation: Do gender stereotypes reduce girls' or boys' human capital outcomes? Evidence from a natural experiment, p. 2083
Author(s): Lavy
Institution(s): Hebrew University

Link: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/vlavy/lavy_j.public.e_10.2008_gender_steriotypes.pdf


Nation(s): Israel
Year(s): 2008
Source: Primary
Type: Statistical Analysis

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p. 2103: The direction of the bias was replicated in all nine subjects of study, in humanities and science subjects alike, at various level of curriculum of study, among underperforming and best-performing students, in schools where girls outperform boys on average, and in schools where boys outperform girls on average