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Author: Kehal, Prabhdeep
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1. Owens, Jayanti
Kehal, Prabhdeep
Who Gets to Walk the Straight Line? Racial Differences in Boys' and Girls' Acting Out and the Accumulation of Structural Privilege/Disadvantage in School
Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Racial Differences

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Although much important research examines the policing of behaviors of adolescent males of color, behavior policing and hyper criminalization, driven by negative stereotyping, start much earlier. We examine whether the same levels of early childhood behavior problems are differentially linked to educational fortunes by intersecting student race-gender identity. We then investigate how differential interactions and treatment within key social institutions of childhood by child race and gender help explain why this might be. We use the latest releases of the NLSY: 1979 Children, which follow a diverse sample of children from birth in the early-to-mid 1980s all the way to their late 20s and early 30s in 2014. Results are consistent with the hypothesis that, for White boys, early behavior problems uniquely predict adult schooling completed. We hypothesize that this reflects a form of privilege conferred uniquely to White males by virtue of their ability to "control their own destinies."
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Owens, Jayanti and Prabhdeep Kehal. "Who Gets to Walk the Straight Line? Racial Differences in Boys' and Girls' Acting Out and the Accumulation of Structural Privilege/Disadvantage in School." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017.