Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap
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- Lundberg, Shelly, 2017. "Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap," IZA Discussion Papers 10814, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
education; college graduation; gender; family structure; father absence; school quality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2017-06-18 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2017-06-18 (Education)
- NEP-GEN-2017-06-18 (Gender)
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