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SUMMARY:Development and political economy seminar - Michela Carlana
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DESCRIPTION:Professionals routinely make consequential decisions for others
  without systematically observing how those decisions turn out. Whether suc
 h decisions reflect accurate forecasting or systematically distorted belief
 s has important implications for equality of opportunity. We study this que
 stion in the context of teachers’ recommendations for high school tracks 
 by combining nationwide administrative data\, randomized vignette experimen
 ts\, belief elicitation\, and a field experiment. Holding students’ acade
 mic performance and interests constant\, teachers are significantly less li
 kely to recommend demanding academic tracks when students come from disadva
 ntaged socioeconomic backgrounds. This differential treatment is accompanie
 d by systematically inaccurate beliefs: teachers substantially overestimate
  the probability that high-achieving disadvantaged students will fail in ac
 ademically demanding schools. We then provide teachers with personalized fe
 edback on their previous recommendations and objective information on the r
 ealized success of disadvantaged students. The intervention substantially r
 educes socioeconomic gaps in recommendations for high-achieving students. E
 ffects are concentrated among boys assigned to teachers with the largest pr
 ior recommendation gaps and the most inaccurate beliefs. Among the high-ach
 ieving disadvantaged boys most affected by the intervention\, these changes
  translate into higher enrollment in demanding academic tracks\, without de
 tectable adverse effects on short-run academic performance.\\n\\nContact: T
 imothée Demont - timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'informations: ht
 tps://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/events/michela-carlana
LOCATION:MEGA - Salle Carine Nourry\, 424\, Chemin du Viaduc\, 13080 Aix-en
 -Provence
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/events/michela-carlana
CONTACT:Timothée Demont - timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.fr
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