TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dee,Thomas S.
TI  - Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14705
PY  - 2009
Y2  - February 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14705
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14705.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Thomas Dee
Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Polic
and Department of Economics
University of Virginia
235 McCormick Road
P.O. Box 400893
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Tel: 434/243-3731
Fax: 434/243-6858
E-Mail: dee@virginia.edu
AB  - Achievement gaps may reflect the cognitive impairment thought to occur in evaluative settings (e.g., classrooms) where a stereotyped identity is salient (i.e., stereotype threat). This study presents an economic model of stereotype threat that reconciles prior evidence on how student effort and performance are influenced by this social-identity phenomenon. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were randomly assigned to a treatment that primed their awareness of a stereotyped identity (i.e., student-athlete). This treatment reduced the test-score performance of athletes relative to non-athletes by 14 percent (effect size = -1.0).
ER  -