Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56299 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 733
Publisher: 
Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We rigorously test for ethnic discrimination in high school grading in Sweden. A random sample of the national tests in the Swedish language is graded both non-blind by the student's own teacher and blind without any identifying information. The increase in the test score due to non-blind grading is significantly higher for students with Swedish background compared to students with foreign background. This discrimination effect is sizeable, and explains the entire difference in test scores between students with Swedish and foreign background.
Subjects: 
Discrimination
Field experiments
Education
JEL: 
C93
I20
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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