Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?
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Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment : Do They Persist into Adulthood? / Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Lundberg, Shelly.
I: European Economic Review, Bind 109, 2018, s. 42-62.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment
T2 - Do They Persist into Adulthood?
AU - Brenøe, Anne Ardila
AU - Lundberg, Shelly
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and women using high-quality administrative data on the entire population of Denmark born between 1966 and 1995. We link parental education and family structure during childhood to male–female and brother–sister differences in adolescent outcomes, educational attainment, and adult earnings and employment. Our results are consistent with U.S. findings that boys benefit more from an advantageous family environment than do girls in terms of grade-school outcomes. Father’s education, which has not been examined in previous studies, is particularly important for sons. However, we find a very different pattern of parental influence on adult outcomes. Gender gaps in educational attainment, employment, and earnings are increasing in maternal education, benefiting daughters. Paternal education decreases the gender gaps in educational attainment (favoring sons) and labor market outcomes (favoring daughters). We conclude that differences in the behavior of school-aged boys and girls may be poor proxies for differences in skills that drive longer-term outcomes.
AB - We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and women using high-quality administrative data on the entire population of Denmark born between 1966 and 1995. We link parental education and family structure during childhood to male–female and brother–sister differences in adolescent outcomes, educational attainment, and adult earnings and employment. Our results are consistent with U.S. findings that boys benefit more from an advantageous family environment than do girls in terms of grade-school outcomes. Father’s education, which has not been examined in previous studies, is particularly important for sons. However, we find a very different pattern of parental influence on adult outcomes. Gender gaps in educational attainment, employment, and earnings are increasing in maternal education, benefiting daughters. Paternal education decreases the gender gaps in educational attainment (favoring sons) and labor market outcomes (favoring daughters). We conclude that differences in the behavior of school-aged boys and girls may be poor proxies for differences in skills that drive longer-term outcomes.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Gender gap
KW - Parental education
KW - Family structure
KW - Education
KW - Labor market outcomes
KW - I20
KW - J1
KW - J2
KW - J3
U2 - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.04.004
DO - 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.04.004
M3 - Journal article
VL - 109
SP - 42
EP - 62
JO - European Economic Review
JF - European Economic Review
SN - 0014-2921
ER -
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