Early Childhood Behavior Problems and the Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in the United States [0.03%]
美国儿童早期行为问题与性别教育差距的关系
Jayanti Owens
Jayanti Owens
Why do men in the United States today complete less schooling than women? One reason may be gender differences in early self-regulation and pro-social behaviors. Scholars have found that boys' early behavioral disadvantage predicts their lo...
(How) Does Obesity Harm Academic Performance? Stratification at the Intersection of Race, Sex, and Body Size in Elementary and High School [0.03%]
肥胖妨碍学业吗？种族、性别和体型的交集在学校里的分层现象
Amelia R Branigan
Amelia R Branigan
In this study I hypothesize a larger penalty of obesity on teacher-assessed academic performance for white girls in English, where femininity is privileged, than in math, where stereotypical femininity is perceived to be a detriment. This p...
Preparing for Local Labor: Curricular Stratification across Local Economies in the United States [0.03%]
因地制宜：美国各地劳动力市场的课程划分
April Sutton
April Sutton
I investigate how the educational demands of local labor markets shape high school course offerings and student course taking. Using the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 linked to the U.S. Census 2000, I focus on local economic variatio...
Into the Red and Back to the Nest? Student Debt, College Completion, and Returning to the Parental Home among Young Adults [0.03%]
负债累累还是回归家庭？大学生债务、大学完成率和年轻人返回父母家之间的关系
Jason N Houle,Cody Warner
Jason N Houle
Rising student debt has sparked concerns about its impact on the transition to adulthood. In this paper, we examine the claim that student debt is leading to a rise in "boomeranging", or returning home, using data from the National Longitud...
What Skills Can Buy: Transmission of advantage through cognitive and noncognitive skills [0.03%]
技能的价值：优势通过认知和非认知技能的代际传递
Catherine Doren,Eric Grodsky
Catherine Doren
Parental income and wealth contribute to children's success but are at least partly endogenous to parents' cognitive and noncognitive skills. We estimate the degree to which mothers' skills measured in early adulthood confound the relations...
ChangHwan Kim,Christopher R Tamborini,Arthur Sakamoto
ChangHwan Kim
Our understanding about the relationship between education and lifetime earnings often neglects differences by field of study. Utilizing data that matches respondents in the Survey of Income and Program Participation to their longitudinal e...
The High School Environment and the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering [0.03%]
中学教育环境与STEM领域的性别差距问题
Joscha Legewie,Thomas A DiPrete
Joscha Legewie
Despite the striking reversal of the gender gap in education, women pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees at much lower rates than those of their male peers. This study extends existing explanations for the...
Joanne W Golann
Joanne W Golann
No recent reform has had so profound an effect as no-excuses schools in increasing the achievement of low-income, black and Hispanic students. In the past decade, no-excuses schools-whose practices include extended instructional time, data-...
Measure for Measure: How Proficiency-Based Accountability Systems Affect Inequality in Academic Achievement [0.03%]
量入为出：学力问责制如何影响学业成就的不平等性
Jennifer Jennings,Heeju Sohn
Jennifer Jennings
How do proficiency-based accountability systems affect inequality in academic achievement? This paper reconciles mixed findings in the literature by demonstrating that three factors jointly determine accountability's impact. First, by analy...
Jacob Hibel,George Farkas,Paul L Morgan
Jacob Hibel
We use nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) to identify variables measured in the fall of 1998 (when the sample's students were in kindergarten) that predict spec...