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Title: Family Background, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Gender Gaps in Education
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Lundberg, Shelly |
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Family Background, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Gender Gaps in Education Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): College Graduates; Educational Attainment; Family Background and Culture; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Presence; Gender Differences; Modeling, Fixed Effects; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Around the world, with the exception of parts of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the educational attainment of young women now exceeds that of young men. A number of researchers have suggested that the increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are likely to be more vulnerable to the negative effects of father absence than girls, either because the influence of a same-sex parent is crucial or because boys are more susceptible to environmental adversity. Using data on young cohorts of men and women from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997, I investigate the association between college graduation and father (and step-father) presence earlier in life, as well as mother-fixed-effect models with opposite-sex siblings to control for unobserved parental and household characteristics. |
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Lundberg, Shelly. "Family Background, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Gender Gaps in Education." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |