Stay-at-Home Peer Mothers and Gender Norms: Short-run Effects on Educational Outcomes

Liwen Chen (), Bobby W. Chung () and Guanghua Wang ()
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Liwen Chen: East China Normal University
Bobby W. Chung: University of South Florida
Guanghua Wang: Nanjing Audit University

No 2023-03, Working Papers from University of South Florida, Department of Economics

Abstract: Increased exposure to gender-role information affects a girl's educational performance. Utilizing the classroom randomization in Chinese middle schools, we find that the increased presence of stay-at-home peer mothers significantly reduces a girl's performance in mathematics. This exposure also cultivates gendered attitudes towards mathematics and STEM professions. Long exposure, dense network, and distant parent-daughter relationship enhance peer mothers' influences. As falsification tests against unobserved confounding factors, we find that the exposure to stay-at-home peer mothers does not affect boys' performance, nor do we find that stay-at-home peer fathers affect girls' outcomes.

Keywords: Cultural transmission; Gender identity; Gender norms; Role models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 J16 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10
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