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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills: roles of SES and gender attitudes
Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433603
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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548641
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Television, cognitive ability, and high school completion
Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
-school and elementary school age. We find no effect on high school completion for women, suggesting availability of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449853
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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind
Antman, Francisca - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104680
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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind
Antman, Francisca - 2010
, suggesting that father absence does not play a major role in determining children's educational outcomes. Instead, these results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012716160
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Child-specific son preference, birth order and cognitive skills in early childhood
Ebert, Cara; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2019
born children and in families with fewer sons. We then study the son preference-specific girl-penalty in early cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037957
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The parental wage gap and the development of socio-emotional skills in children
Hufe, Paul - 2024
in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children …Converging labor market opportunities of men and women have altered the economic incentives for how families invest … monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529250
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The parental wage gap and the development of socio-emotional skills in children
Hufe, Paul - 2024
Converging labor market opportunities of men and women have altered the economic incentives for how families invest … monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG) - defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers - on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529736
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442547
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960s and early 1970s that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039967