The trouble with boys
Subtitle: social influences and the gender gap in disruptive behavior
By: Marianne Bertrand, Jessica Pan
Contributors: Pan, Jessica Yunfen; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 17541; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 17541.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive behavior.  We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially poorly in broken families.  In contrast, we find little impact of the early school environment on non-cognitive gaps.  Differences in endowments explain a small part of boys' non-cognitive deficit in single-mother families.  More importantly, non-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender.  Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non-cognitive development, unlike girls', appears extremely responsive to such inputs"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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