Early life exposure to gender biases: parents' stereotypes and domain-specific performance in schools

Last registered on January 03, 2023

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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title

Early life exposure to gender biases: parents' stereotypes and domain-specific performance in schools

RCT ID

AEARCTR-0010643

Initial registration date

December 15, 2022

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published

January 03, 2023, 4:24 PM EST

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Country

Peru

Region

Primary Investigator

Name

Joan Martinez

Affiliation

UC Berkeley

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Other Primary Investigator(s)

Additional Trial Information

Status

In development

Start date

2023-02-15

End date

2023-06-30

Keywords

Education, Gender, Other

Additional Keywords

Stereotypes, Economics of Gender, Human Capital, Education and Inequality

JEL code(s)

J16, J24, I24

Secondary IDs

Prior work

This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.

Abstract

Early exposure to gender biases xstart in households where parents' educational encouragement and allocation of resources can differ drastically depending on their children's gender.

External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation

Martinez, Joan. 2023. "Early life exposure to gender biases: parents' stereotypes and domain-specific performance in schools." AEA RCT Registry. January 03. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.10643-1.0

Sponsors & Partners

Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)

I will send information to parents about gender biases, and students' achievements per parents' bias intensity and examine to what extent it changes the short-run outcomes. In the long run, I will measure improvements in intra-household resource allocation, domain-specific school performance, graduation, and college applications.

Intervention Start Date

2023-02-20

Intervention End Date

2023-04-07

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)

In the short run, I will to evaluate explicit gender attitudes, implicit gender attitudes and intra-household time allocation for their children. In the long-run I will to evaluate test scores (domain-specific), graduation, college applications.

Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)

Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

First, I will collect the students' baseline grades from the beginning of the school term, parents' gender attitudes, and other baseline characteristics. Next, the treatment will be assigned following a two-stage randomization: at the school level and to households within schools. Finally, I will gather information on the outcomes.

Experimental Design Details

I will potentially address the spillover effects of the information randomizing the saturation levels per school.

Randomization Method

Randomization was done in the office on a computer.

Randomization Unit

I have two levels of randomization: (1) Schools and (2) Households.

Was the treatment clustered?

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters

70 schools

Sample size: planned number of observations

8500 households

Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms

Control schools (30); Treated schools (40). 1,275 households will receive domain-specific children achievement gap; 1,275 households will receive rank-based children achievement gap; and 1,700 households will receive both. 4,250 are control households.

Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)

Supporting Documents and Materials

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