RT Journal Article
T1 Gender differences in adolescents’ academic achievement
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
A1 López-Agudo, Luis Alejandro
A1 Ropero-García, Miguel Ángel
K1 Rendimiento académico - Diferencias sexuales
K1 Disciplina escolar
AB Recent empirical literature has highlighted that adolescents show gender differences in academic performance. The present study intends to disentangle the contribution of some less well-known factors to that gender difference in the fourth year of secondary education. To this aim, we use recent methodological advances in decomposition techniques. We observe that girls are less likely to get low scores than boys. More interestingly, gender differences in the returns to expectations about the future have been found to explain most of this advantage for girls, while boys rely more on their initial learning skills to pass. Additionally, we found that boys are more prone to misbehaviour than girls, whereas boys’ academic results are more sensitive to changes in their family socio-economic status, which also explains a significant portion of the gender differences in academic achievement.
PB Sage
YR 2017
FD 2017-08-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39381
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39381
LA eng
NO Marcenaro–Gutierrez, O., Lopez–Agudo, L. A., & Ropero-García, M. A. (2018). Gender Differences in Adolescents’ Academic Achievement. YOUNG, 26(3), 250-270.
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/9574
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026