Arbeitspapier
Cultural Gender Norms and Neighbourhood Exposure: Impacts on the Gender Gap in Math
This paper investigates the interaction between cultural norms and neighbourhood characteristics. I estimate the effect of cultural gender norms on the gender gap in math, and explore whether this effect is mitigated by municipality gender equality. I use high-quality Swedish administrative data on the results of national standardised math tests. To separate the effect of cultural gender norms from formal institutions, I estimate the effect of mothers' source-country gender norms on the gender gap in math for second-generation immigrants. By contrasting the outcomes of opposite-sex siblings, I show that the sibling gender gap in math increases with mothers' adherence to traditional gender norms; such that girls with more gender-traditional mothers perform worse relative to their brothers. To investigate whether the cultural gender norm effect can be mitigated by municipality gender equality, I exploit a refugee placement policy to obtain random variation in municipality characteristics. I show that municipality gender equality can almost completely mitigate the negative cultural norm effect. Taken together, my results imply that while cultural gender norms play an important role for the gender gap in math, they are not immune to the effects of neighbourhood exposure.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2020:6
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education and Inequality
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Thema
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cultural gender norms
math gender gap
epidemiological approach
refugee placement policy
sibling fixed effects
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ericsson, Sanna
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
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Lund
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Ericsson, Sanna
- Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2020
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