主讲嘉宾: 吴华丽 经济学助理教授

单 位：山西财经大学经济学院，智能管理会计研究院

主讲题目：Could the way in which they speak determine how well boys and girls count? Assessing the relationship between math skills and language structure

时 间：2024年3月25日（周一）上午10:00

地 点：经济学院402会议室

嘉宾简介：吴华丽博士，山西财经大学经济学助理教授。江苏南通人，本科毕业于南京农业大学金融系，硕士毕业于复旦大学世界经济系，2023年于法国埃塞克高等商学院（ESSEC Business School）和塞吉巴黎大学（CY Cergy Paris Université）获得经济学博士学位和工商管理博士学位。她主要关注性别不平等的形成和社会影响，研究涉及中国婚姻制度、语言语法结构、宗族文化和早期人力资本形成。她的合作论文“At the intersection of ableism and sexism: conceptual and empirical applications” 即将发表在Journal of Business Ethics。

论文摘要：Performance differences in mathematics between boys and girls early in life impact both educational and occupational choices with long lasting repercussions for an individual’s life-time outcomes. This paper uses the epidemiological approach to study the causal impact of grammatical gender on the math scores of boys and girls in second-generation immigrant households. We show that girls speaking a gendered language in the home have significantly worse math scores, even after controlling for parental education, employment, and occupation as well as a very stringent set of fixed effects. We find that performance differences across genders are due to declining extrinsic motivation, math self-efficacy, and formal time spent studying math in public schools, not gaps in intrinsic interest levels in mathematics or beliefs about own ability. By studying switchers and non-switchers, we find that language affects math performance mainly through the language acquisition rather than as a cultural marker.