Age at pubertal onset and educational outcomes

Anna Dreber, Emma von Essen () and Eva Ranehill ()
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Eva Ranehill: Stockholm School of Economics, Postal: Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, S-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden

No 2011:26, Research Papers in Economics from Stockholm University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Education has important short and long run implications for individual outcomes. In this paper we explore the association between age at pubertal onset and educational outcomes in a sample of Swedish girls. Previous research suggests that girls that mature earlier perform worse in school compared to girls that mature later. To test if this is also true among Swedish girls, we investigate the association between pubertal development and grades, educational aspirations and educational choice. We also investigate whether changes in risk attitudes, time preferences and priorities concerning school versus friends mediate this potential correlation. We confirm that earlier maturing girls have lower grades and lower educational aspirations, but find that they make educational choices similar to those of later maturing girls. Furthermore, we do not find that these differences in grades and aspirations are mediated by risk attitudes, time preferences or priorities.

Keywords: educational outcomes; puberty; pubertal timing; grades (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 J10 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2011-09-27
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-lab and nep-neu
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