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

Autor:	Paul D. Umbach, Sueuk Park, Ryan D. Padgett, Ryan S. Wells, Tricia A. Seifert
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	05 social sciences Ethnic group 050301 education Mesosociology Degree (music) Educational attainment Education Test (assessment) Race (biology) 0502 economics and business 050207 economics Gender history Psychology 0503 education Social psychology Social capital
Zdroj:	The Journal of Higher Education. 82:1-32
ISSN:	1538-4640
DOI:	10.1353/jhe.2011.0004
Popis:	We test the assumption that peer and/or familial influences are partially responsible fore the expectation gender gap, and examine the differences in this gap by race/ethnicity. We find that the effects of social capital differ by gender but that the gender gap in expectations does not differ by race.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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