Transcription of Measuring Discrimination in Education
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIESMEASURING Discrimination IN EDUCATIONRema HannaLeigh LindenWorking Paper 15057 BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH1050 Massachusetts AvenueCambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This project was funded in part by University Research Challenge Fund at New York thank Payal Hathi for outstanding research assistance. We thank Abhijit Banerjee, Asim Khwaja,Sendhil Mullainathan, Rohini Pande, and Jonah Rockoff for helpful comments. The views expressedherein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau ofEconomic working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies officialNBER publications. 2009 by Rema Hanna and Leigh Linden.
what is known as the Pygmalion effect, through whichstudents perform better (or worse) simply because they are expected to do so. For example, the seminal paper in the literature, Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968), has shown that individual students outperformed other students in school
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