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Analysis Code for "The Black-White Gap in Non-Cognitive Skills among Elementary School Children"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Todd Elder, Michigan State University; Yuqing Zhou, University of California-Los Angeles

Version:  View help for Version V2

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Project Citation: 

Elder, Todd, and Zhou, Yuqing. Analysis Code for “The Black-White Gap in Non-Cognitive Skills among Elementary School Children” . Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-03-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117301V2

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Using two nationally representative datasets, we find large differences between black and white children in teacher-reported measures of non-cognitive skills. We show that teacher reports understate true black-white skill gaps because of reference bias: teachers appear to rate children relative to others in the same school, and black students have lower-skilled classmates, on average, than do white students. We pursue three approaches to addressing these reference biases. Each approach nearly doubles the estimated black-white gaps in non-cognitive skills, to roughly 0.9 standard deviations in third grade.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms skills
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I24 Education and Inequality
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 9/1/1998 – 5/1/2014
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) program source code


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