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Gender gaps in the effects of childhood family environment : do they persist into adulthood?
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Lundberg, Shelly - 2016
We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and women using high-quality administrative data on the entire population of Denmark born between 1966 and 1995. We link parental education and family structure during childhood to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572292
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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage
Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020
graduation, employment, or income for men, relative to women. We do find that father absence is more strongly associated with men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164784
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Educational inequality and the returns to skills
Lundberg, Shelly - 2013
Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households … have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated … determinants of educational attainment – differential returns to skills for children in different circumstances. Though the returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125884
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The college type : personality and educational inequality
Lundberg, Shelly - 2013
concerning educational inequality should include, not just the possibilities for remediating the skill levels of poor children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727631
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Educational gender gaps
Lundberg, Shelly - 2020
Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates of participation in STEM studies by girls. Recent economics research has shown the importance of social influences on women's STEM avoidance, but male low achievement has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271643
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Skill disparities and unequal family outcomes
Lundberg, Shelly - 2014
The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387956