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DiPrete, Thomas A. McDaniel, Anne |
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Family, Gender, and Educational Outcomes in Elementary and Middle School Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B, ECLS-K); Educational Attainment; Educational Outcomes; Family Studies; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Presence; Gender Differences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Schooling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. It is now well established that girls typically outperform boys in school and have higher levels of educational attainment. Recent research suggests that the gender gap in educational attainment is related to family resources, in that the attainment gap appears to be smaller in families with more highly educated parents. Using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of 1979 and 1997 along with data from the ECLS-K, we provide evidence that the gender gap in educational performance at various points in the educational career is smaller in families with more highly educated parents, and that the gender gap in behavior problems -- which has been linked to educational attainment in previous research -- may also be smaller in these families. The presence of a biological father in the household may also be linked to the size of the gender gap in behavior problems in elementary and middle school. |
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DiPrete, Thomas A. and Anne McDaniel. "Family, Gender, and Educational Outcomes in Elementary and Middle School." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011. |