Educational Gender Gaps.

Autor/in	Lundberg, Shelly
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Educational Gender Gaps. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Geschlechtsspezifische Bildungsunterschiede.
Quelle	Bonn (2020), 36 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 13630
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildungsverhalten; Bildungsmotivation; Soziale Identität; Identitätsbildung; Geschlechtsspezifische Sozialisation; Soziale Herkunft; Soziale Norm; Frau; Geschlechterrolle; Frau; Mann; Studium; Geschlechterrolle; Schulleistung; Soziale Identität; USA; Soziale Herkunft; Studienmotivation; Soziale Norm; Determinante; Bildungsverhalten; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsabschluss; Schulleistung; Determinante; Studium; Studienmotivation; Arbeitspapier; Geschlechtsspezifik; Mann; USA
Abstract	Spätere (möglicherweise abweichende) Version erschienen in: Southern Economic Journal , John Wiley & Sons, vol. 87(2), pages 416-439, October.. - "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 less-studied and tends to be attributed to behavior problems and deficient non-cognitive skills. I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender differences, particularly in the transition to college. Educational aspirations, on the other hand, are strongly predictive of educational gaps and the gender difference in aspirations cannot be explained, even with rich adolescent data that includes parental expectations and school achievement indicators. These results suggest that gender identity concerns may influence (and damage) the educational prospects of boys as well as girls through norms of masculinity that discourage academic achievement." The study refers to the period 1994-2008. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1