TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Alesina, Alberto
AU  - Carlana, Michela
AU  - Ferrara, Eliana La
AU  - Pinotti, Paolo
        TI  - Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
        PY  - 2018/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11981
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11981
        AB  - If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students compared to natives who have the same performance on standardized, blindly-graded tests. We then relate differences in grading to teachers' stereotypes, elicited through an Implicit Association Test (IAT). We find that math teachers with stronger stereotypes give lower grades to immigrants compared to natives with the same performance.
Literature teachers do not differentially grade immigrants based on their own stereotypes. Finally, we share teachers' own IAT score with them, randomizing the timing of disclosure around the date on which they assign term grades. All teachers informed of their stereotypes before term grading increase grades assigned to immigrants. Revealing stereotypes may be a powerful intervention to decrease discrimination, but it may also induce a reaction from individuals who were not acting in a biased way.
        KW  - implicit stereotypes
KW  - teachers
KW  - immigrants
KW  - IAT
KW  - bias in grading
        ER  -