Gender gap variation across assessment types: Explanations and implications

Gender gap variation across assessment types : Explanations and implications

Graetz, Georg (author): Uppsala universitet,Nationalekonomiska institutionen

Karimi, Arizo, 1983- (author): Uppsala universitet,Nationalekonomiska institutionen

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Elsevier, 2022
2022
English.
In: Economics of Education Review. - : Elsevier. - 0272-7757 .- 1873-7382. ; 91

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Abstract Subject headings

Using Swedish population data, we document that girls outperform boys by a third of a standard deviation in school grades, whereas a gap of similar magnitude but opposite sign persists in SAT scores in the sample of non-randomly selected test takers. We establish that grades capture different attributes than SAT scores, which accounts for much of the variation in gender gaps. A model of SAT participation illustrates how women's greater participation-driven by traits not rewarded by higher scores-leads to their negative selection on observed and unobserved traits. We explore the quantitative importance of this mechanism and conclude that while selection is important, it fails to account for a substantial fraction of the gender gap in SAT scores, suggesting the possibility that the SAT penalizes women.

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