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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. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271643
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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 … parental education and family structure during childhood to male-female and brother-sister differences in teenage outcomes … from an advantageous family environment than do girls in terms of the behavior and grade-school outcomes. Father …
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Father absence and the educational gender gap
Lundberg, Shelly - 2017
increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664518
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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage
Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020
The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...
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