Why Do More Women than Men Want to Earn a Four-Year Degree? Exploring the Effects of Gender, Social Origin, and Social Capital on Educational Expectations

By Ryan Wells, Tricia A. Seifert, Ryan D. Padgett, Sueuk Park, Paul D. Umbach. 2011

116 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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• Black Parents as Advocates, Motivators, and Teachers of Mathematics (2015, unknown): “The dilemma continues to make Black parents highly suspicious of schools and critical of the inequitable treatment of Black students (Wells et al., 2011).”
• Talking ‘Bout My Generation: Defining “First-Generation College Students” in Higher Education Research (2018, background): “More recently, the majority of studies tend to define first-generation status as one or both parents having not graduated from college (Inkelas, Daver, Vogt, & Leonard, 2007; Ishitani, 2003, 2006; Padgett et al., 2012; Prospero & Vohra-Gupta, 2007; Wells et al., 2011).”