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Title: Habits That Make, Habits That Break: Early Childhood Behavior Problems and the Gender Gap in Education in the United States
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Owens, Jayanti |
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Habits That Make, Habits That Break: Early Childhood Behavior Problems and the Gender Gap in Education in the United States Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Attention/Attention Deficit; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the past three decades, females in the United States have comprised a growing majority of high school and college graduates. An understudied explanation for this female attainment advantage is females' lower levels of self-regulation problems and social problems. With macro-level social shifts, including gender parity in parental investments in children and the opening of the labor market for women, males' long-standing behavioral disadvantage in childhood may now translate into lower levels of educational attainment compared to females. Using newly-available, prospective panel data on a national sample of children followed from birth in the 1980's through much of their twenties, results show that the life-course origins of today's female advantage in attainment trace back to females' lower levels of early childhood behavior problems. Early behavior problems shape and are shaped by educational achievement and social context but pathways differ for males and females, as does the timing of educational transitions. |
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Owens, Jayanti. "Habits That Make, Habits That Break: Early Childhood Behavior Problems and the Gender Gap in Education in the United States." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014. |