Where the boys aren't: Non-cognitive skills, returns to school and the gender gap in higher education

By Brian A. Jacob. 2002

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Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training? (2010, unknown): “Jacob (2002) provides evidence for the role of noncognitive skills on educational attainment, and Borghans et al. (2008b) show that persons with favourable noncognitive skills perform best in cognitive tests.”
Why Are Men Falling Behind? Gender Gaps in College Performance and Persistence (2010, background): “(Jacob 2002; Peter and Horn 2005; Reynolds and Burge 2004; Riegle-Crumb 2007).”
Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behaviour (2005, unknown): “Falling fertility and rising women’s labor force participation have equalized incentives to invest in sons and daughters, so that discrepancies in educational attainment have diminished and in some cases reversed to favor females (Jacob, 2002).”
The Literacy Hour (2008, unknown): “10 For example, an OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) report about the teaching of reading in Inner London primary schools included criticism of the following practices: free reading with little or no intervention by the teacher; too much time spent hearing individual pupils read; insufficie”
Why Are Youth from Lower-income Families Less Likely to Attend University? Evidence from Academic Abilities, Parental Influences, and Financial Constraints (2007, unknown): “Conditional on one’s performance on a standardized test, school marks may reflect one’s ability to capitalize on these skills in a more structured setting (Jacob, 2002).”
Linking Teacher Quality, Student Attendance, and Student Achievement (2016, unknown): “Attendance is one such proxy, which is both objective and easily observable, that previous researchers have utilized (e.g., Jacob 2002; Jackson 20 1 3).”
Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement (2007, unknown): “And boys are now increasingly less likely than girls both to attend college and to persist in attaining a degree (Jacob 2002).”
Gender Differences in Education (2012, unknown): “Indeed, Jacob (2002) shows that controlling for non-cognitive behavioral factors in a data set on U.S high school graduates from 1992 can explain the entire female advantage in the probability of continuing to college.”