The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior
The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior
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DOI：
10.1257/app.5.1.32
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Pan, Jessica
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作者：
Bertrand, Marianne;Pan, Jessica
本文探讨了家庭和学校环境在解释破坏性行为的性别差异中的重要性。我们记录了在家庭环境的关键特征上存在的巨大性别差异——男孩在破碎的家庭中表现尤其糟糕。相比之下，我们发现早期学校环境对非认知差距的影响很小。在单亲妈妈家庭中，天赋的差异只解释了男孩的一小部分非认知缺陷。更重要的是，父母投入的非认知回报因性别而有显著差异。破碎的家庭与糟糕的父母投入有关，而男孩的非认知发展，与女孩不同，似乎对这种投入非常敏感。
This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment-boys do especially poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little impact of the early school environment on noncognitive gaps. Differences in endowments explain a small part of boys' noncognitive deficit in single-mother families. More importantly, noncognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs, and boys' noncognitive development, unlike that of girls', appears extremely responsive to such inputs.