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Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-Gender Contact, and Student Achievement

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  • Mehmood, Sultan
  • Naseer, Shaheen
  • Chen, Daniel L.

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We provide experimental evidence of teacher-to-student transmission of gender attitudes in Pakistan. We randomly show teachers a pro-women’s rights visual narrative. Treated teachers increase their and students’ support for women’s rights, unbiasedness in gender IATs, and willingness to petition parliament for greater gender equality. Students improve coordination and cooperation with the opposite gender. Effects are larger when teachers teach a gender-rights curriculum. Mathematics achievement increases for classrooms assigned to form mixed-gender study groups treated with an intense program (visual narrative and curriculum), while no significant effects appear in same-sex study groups. Gender attitudes are transmissible, and cooperation improves student outcomes

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  • Mehmood, Sultan & Naseer, Shaheen & Chen, Daniel L., 2024. "Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-Gender Contact, and Student Achievement," TSE Working Papers 129997, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
    • Handle: RePEc:tse:wpaper:129997
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    Keywords

    teachers; attitudes; IATs; gender; inter-gender contact;
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    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments

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