
IAT Does Not Predict Discrimination Against Immigrant Students in Italy
Alesina, A., Carlana, M., La Ferrara, E., & Pinotti, P. (2018). Revealing stereotypes: Evidence from immigrants in schools (NBER Working Paper No. 25333). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w25333
Abstracts are short and cannot tell the whole story. A previous working paper and data in this article show that the IAT was also used to predict grading and that there was no evidence that IAT scores predicted lower grades for immigrant students.
The study
Alesina, Carlana, La Ferrara and Pinotti asked whether Italian middle-school teachers’ implicit stereotypes…
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