Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools
研究通过向意大利教师揭示其内隐偏见(IAT测试结果),发现这能减少对移民学生与本地学生评分差距,且对偏见较强的教师效果更显著。
We study how people change their behavior after being made aware of bias. Teachers in Italian schools give lower grades to immigrant students relative to natives of comparable ability. In two experiments, we reveal to teachers their own stereotypes, measured by an Implicit Association Test (IAT). In the first, we find that learning one’s IAT before assigning grades reduces the native-immigrant grade gap. In the second, IAT disclosure and generic debiasing have similar average effects, but there is heterogeneity: teachers with stronger negative stereotypes do not respond to generic debiasing but change their behavior when informed about their own IAT.