If Men Are in Trouble, What Is the Cause?

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2024-12-24 12:35

Article here. Excerpt:

'Why do boys disproportionately fall into the bottom tenth?

Fascinatingly, Autor and his colleagues found that boys suffered much more than girls from “adverse child-rearing conditions” and “that less favorable home environments differentially raise the prevalence of adverse outcomes among boys relative to girls.”

The consequences?

“Because these adverse outcomes are determinative of high school dropout rates,” they wrote, “this differential sensitivity could help explain the large gender gap in dropping out.”'

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