Children's academic achievement and behavior problems at the intersection of gender and family environment
Kühhirt, Michael and Klein, Markus and Demirer, Ibrahim (2023) Children's academic achievement and behavior problems at the intersection of gender and family environment. Socius, 9. pp. 1-11. ISSN 2378-0231 (https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231199395)
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Abstract
This article investigates whether gender differences in children’s math, reading, and behavior problems vary across mothers’ education and family structure. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth-Children and Young Adults (N > 6,200; age range = 5–14; 51 percent female; 30 percent Black, 20 percent Hispanic, and 50 percent other ethnic backgrounds), we hypothesized that boys growing up with less educated mothers and in single-parent families may lag behind girls more significantly in reading and behavior problems. They may be less ahead in math than their peers from more advantaged backgrounds. Our findings demonstrate this heterogeneity of gender differences by maternal education but not by family structure. This may indicate that cultural norms associated with gender play a significant role in explaining the observed heterogeneity across family circumstances. We replicated these findings for academic achievement using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class 1998–1999.
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Kühhirt, Michael, Klein, Markus ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1195-8938 and Demirer, Ibrahim;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 86788 Dates: DateEvent12 October 2023Published12 October 2023Published Online18 August 2023AcceptedSubjects: Education > Education (General) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 28 Sep 2023 09:21 Last modified: 26 Sep 2024 00:54 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/86788