The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement

By Claudia Buchmann, Thomas A. DiPrete. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Teenage career aspirations and adult career attainment: The role of gender, social background and general cognitive ability (2011, background): “Despite the fact that women have gained much in terms of educational attainment over the last decades (Buchmann & DiPrete, 2006), there are persisting gender inequalities in occupational attainment.”
• 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 (2011, background): “The same-sex parent effect may further complicate educational situations for high school men in families with absent fathers (Buchmann & Diprete, 2006; Frenette & Zelman, 2007).”
• Economic Crisis and Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Latin America (2010, result): “This transformation is very much in line with trends in industrialized countries (Arum, Gamoran, and Shavit 2007; Buchmann and DiPrete 2006).”
• COHORT AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN EXTRACURRICULAR PARTICIPATION: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACTIVITIES, MATH ACHIEVEMENT, AND COLLEGE EXPECTATIONS (2008, background): “Current statistics show that this is in fact the case; females are attaining degrees at higher rates than males (Buchmann and DiPrete 2006).”
• Gender Differences in Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents in Hong Kong: Relationships and Self-Concept (2016, background): “It is generally accepted that women outperform men academically, as seen in college admissions and degree attainment (e.g., Buchmann and DiPrete 2006; Feliciano and Rumbaut 2005).”
• Leaving Boys Behind (2015, background): “Consistent with Buchmann and DiPrete (2006), we fi nd that these effects have increased from the 1980s to the 2000s.”
• Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes (2019, neutral): “Buchmann and DiPrete (2006), Goldin et al. (2006), DiPrete and Jennings (2012), Autor and Wasserman (2013), Bertrand and Pan (2013), DiPrete and Buchmann (2013), Fortin et al. (2015), Chetty et al. (2016b), and Lundberg (2017) explore the evolution of gender differences in behavioral and…”
• Is a College Degree Still the Great Equalizer? Intergenerational Mobility across Levels of Schooling in the United States1 (2011, background): “Furthermore, women’s graduation rates have substantially increased for the younger cohorts born since 1965, resulting in a reversal of the gender gap in college attainment (Buchmann and DiPrete 2006; DiPrete and Buchmann 2006).”
• The academic value of internships: Benefits across disciplines and student backgrounds (2015, background): “…concerned with an academic disadvantage for female students (Rudd, 1984), more recent studies have moved away from a uniformly negative view on female educational attainment (McNabb, Pal, & Sloane, 2002), with some reporting an overall reversal of this gender gap (Buchmann & DiPrete, 2006).”
• Chronic and Proximate Depression among Mothers: Implications for Child Well-Being. (2011, background): “The fact that young boys were more vulnerable than girls to maternal depression may have wide-ranging implications, perhaps even contributing to the growing gender gap in educational attainment (Buchmann & DiPrete, 2006).”
• Shadow Education, American Style: Test Preparation, the SAT and College Enrollment (2010, background): “…to JSTOR Terms and Conditions The same process likely applies to young women, who have lower average SAT scores than young men, yet have increased their college enrollment so much in recent decades that they are now more likely to enroll in and complete college than men (Buchmann and DiPrete 2006).”