Publicación: Gendered Diverging Destinies: Changing Family Structures and the Reproduction of Educational Inequalities Among Sons and Daughters in the United States
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2022-02-01
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Boertien, Diederik
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Duke University Press
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The prevalence of nontraditional family structures has increased over time, particularly among socioeconomically disadvantaged families. Because children's socioeconomic attainments are positively associated with growing up in a two-parent household, changing family structures are considered to have strengthened the reproduction of social inequalities across generations. However, several studies have shown that childhood family structure relates differently to educational outcomes for sons than for daughters. Therefore, we ask whether there are gender differences in the extent to which changing family structures have contributed to the college attainment gap between children from lower and higher socioeconomic backgrounds. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to estimate extended Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition models that take into account cross-cohort changes in the prevalence of family structures and heterogeneity in the effects of childhood family structure on college attainment. We find that the argument that changes in family structures contributed to diverging destinies in college attainment holds for daughters but not for sons. This result is due to the different changes over time in the effects of childhood family structure by gender and socioeconomic background.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Duke University Press in "Demography, 59, 1 111-136", available at: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9612710
Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo publicado por Duke University Press en "Demography, 59, 1 111-136", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9612710
Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo publicado por Duke University Press en "Demography, 59, 1 111-136", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9612710
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Inequality of Opportunity, Family Structure, Gender, Education, Social Stratification
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Boertien, D. and Bernardi, F. (2022), “Gendered Diverging Destinies: Changing Family Structures and the Reproduction of Educational Inequalities Among Sons and Daughters in the United States”, Demography, 59, 1 111-136. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9612710
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología
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Sociología II (Estructura Social)