TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Nicoletti, Cheti
AU  - Sevilla, Almudena
AU  - Tonei, Valentina
        TI  - Gender Stereotypes in the Family
        PY  - 2022/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15773
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15773
        AB  - We study whether and why parents have gender-stereotyped beliefs when they assess their child's skills. Exploiting systematic differences in parental beliefs about a child's skills and blindly graded standardized test scores, we find that parents overestimate boys' skills more so than girls' in mathematics (a male-stereotyped subject), whereas there are no gender differences for reading. 
Consistent with an information friction hypothesis, we find that the parental gender bias disappears for parents who are interviewed after receiving information on their child's test scores. We further show that the parental gender bias in detriment of girls contributes to explain the widening of the gender gap in mathematical skills later in childhood, supporting the hypothesis that exposure to gender biases negatively influence girls' ability to achieve their full potential.
        KW  - parental beliefs
KW  - gender bias
KW  - stereotypes
KW  - school performance
KW  - standardized scores
        ER  -