Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Autor, David; Figlio, David; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Roth, Jeffrey; Wasserman, Melanie
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Rochester; Emory University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uead069
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 3136-3152
• 关键词: biased sex-ratios; school; mathematics; environment

摘要

We document that the female advantage in childhood behavioural and academic outcomes is driven by gender gaps at the extremes of the outcome distribution. Using unconditional quantile regression, we show that family socioeconomic status particularly influences boys' relative to girls' outcomes at the lower tails of the outcome distribution, precisely where gender gaps are most pronounced. These relationships are not explained by school or neighbourhood factors, or parents' differential treatment of boys. The disproportionate effect of socioeconomic status on boys at the tails substantially contributes to the gender gap in high school dropout.