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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Same-sex role model effects in education |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 438 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 |
| Number of Pages | 45 |
| Date | 2023 |
| Abstract Text | We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going beyond test scores, our multi-country study documents larger average role model effects on job preferences (0.063 SD). To understand the universality of these effects, we estimate the distributions of country-level same-sex role model effects. Although role model effects on test scores appear universally small, we find substantial cross-country variation for job preferences, with larger effects in countries with larger gender gaps. These results are consistent with role models inspiring students to overcome gender stereotypes and pursue a STEM career. However, in countries with negligible gender gaps, role models do not seem to have this equalizing function. |
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| Keywords | Same-sex role models, STEM, teachers, external validity, multi-country study, gender role models, standardized test scores, grades, job preferences, science, math, reading, meta-analysis, meta-science |
| Additional Information | Auch publiziert als URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper No. 30: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/255951/ |