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Title: Sex and Education: Does the Onset of Sex during Adolescence Lead to Bad Grades?
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Whitworth, Tanya Rouleau Paik, Anthony |
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Sex and Education: Does the Onset of Sex during Adolescence Lead to Bad Grades? Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Adolescent Sexual Activity; Age at First Intercourse; Grade Point Average (GPA)/Grades Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Many U.S. teenagers experience their first sexual intercourse during their high-school years, which has led to growing interest in whether there are negative spillovers of sexual behavior on academic performance. Using the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this research employed longitudinal individual fixed-effects regression models to estimate the effect of first sexual intercourse on grades among a nationally representative cohort of eight and ninth graders over four waves of data collection. The results indicate that, on average, there are no negative spillovers of first sexual intercourse on grade point averages of male or female students. Separate analyses by race/ethnicity showed that for African American girls and Latinx boys and girls, there is an association between first sexual intercourse and lower grades among younger students, but not for older students. These results highlight an age-specific, gendered, and racialized pattern of negative spillover of first sexual intercourse on academic performance that has not been found in the existing literature. |
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Whitworth, Tanya Rouleau and Anthony Paik. "Sex and Education: Does the Onset of Sex during Adolescence Lead to Bad Grades?" Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017. |