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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: Vol. 5 No. 1 (January 2013)
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The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior
Article Citation
Bertrand, Marianne, and
Jessica Pan. 2013. "The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior."
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,
5(1): 32-64.
DOI: 10.1257/app.5.1.32
DOI: 10.1257/app.5.1.32
Abstract
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
noncognitive gaps. Differences in endowments explain a small part
of boys' noncognitive deficit in single-mother families. More importantly, noncognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by
gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs,
and boys' noncognitive development, unlike that of girls', appears
extremely responsive to such inputs. (JEL I21, J12, J13, J16, Z13)
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Authors
Bertrand, Marianne (U Chicago and IZA, Bonn)
Pan, Jessica (National U Singapore)
Pan, Jessica (National U Singapore)
JEL Classifications
I21: Analysis of Education
J12: Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J13: Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J16: Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Z13: Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification
J12: Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
J13: Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J16: Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Z13: Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification
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