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Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap / David Autor, David N. Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeffrey Roth, Melanie Wasserman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Autor, David.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27196.
- NBER working paper series no. w27196
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- Analyzing Florida birth certificates matched to school records, we document that the female advantage in childhood behavioral and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional quantile regression, we investigate whether family socioeconomic status (SES) differentially affects the lower tail outcomes of boys. We find that the differential effects of family SES on boys' outcomes are concentrated in the parts of the distribution where the gender gaps are most pronounced. Accounting for the disproportionate effects of family environment on boys at the tails substantially narrows the gender gap in high school dropout.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2020.
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