The trouble with boys : social influences and the gender gap in disruptive behavior / Marianne Bertrand, Jessica Pan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bertrand, Marianne, author.

Pan, Jessica Yunfen, author.

Series:

Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; 17541.

NBER working paper series ; 17541

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Behavior disorders in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011.

Summary:

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.

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