TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Brunello, Giorgio
AU  - Crocè, Clementina
AU  - Giustinelli, Pamela
AU  - Rocco, Lorenzo
        TI  - Teacher Personality and the Perceived Socioeconomic Gap in Student Outcomes
        PY  - 2024/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17331
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17331
        AB  - We randomly assign student profiles to teachers and elicit teachers' beliefs about the student's likelihood of success in alternative high school tracks. We document a large and statistically significant gradient in teachers' beliefs about students' high school prospects with respect to students' socioeconomic background (SEB), ceteris paribus. We find that this gradient varies with teacher's personality, a hard-to-observe and understudied teacher trait. Specifically, higher levels of teacher's extraversion and openness are associated with a steeper negative SEB gradient in teachers' beliefs about students' success prospects in an academic track. Conversely, more conscientious and agreeable teachers assign to low-SEB students, on average, a higher probability of success in a vocational track. We discuss some policy implications of our findings.
        KW  - choice of high school tracks
KW  - teachers' beliefs and personality
KW  - Italy
        ER  -