Gender Differences in Adolescents' Socioemotional Development and Their Later Economic Consequences

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Kaufmann and Yasemin Özdemir
Additional contact information
Yasemin Özdemir: University of Bayreuth

No 15796, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We exploit a large exogenous shock to study socioemotional development (SED) during adolescence and the consequences on relevant economic outcomes, focusing on gender differences. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German adolescents before and after a large macro shock (the German Reunification), we causally estimate the impact on SED, finding substantial negative effects in the short run. These effects are similar for male and female youth. In terms of how these changes in SED impact behavior, however, we find stark differences by gender, observing important changes in externalizing behavior and behavioral control problems among males only as opposed to changes in internalizing behavior among females only. Ultimately, the effects on longer-run outcomes (subjective health, wellbeing, education) are grave and similar for both genders

Keywords: socioemotional development; youths; gender; behavior; health; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 I12 I31 J13 J16 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2022-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gen
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp15796.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Gender Differences in Adolescents' Socioemotional Development and their Later Economic Consequences (2022)
Working Paper: Gender Differences in Adolescents' Socioemotional Development and their Later Economic Consequences (2022)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp15796

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().