拉丁美洲和加勒比地区早期儿童发展中的性别差距
Samuel Berlinski1, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano2, Alba Sóñora-Noya3
1Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 1300 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC, 20577, USA; IZA, Germany.
Economics and human biology
|February 11, 2025
概括
在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区,女孩在童年早期经常表现出比男孩更好的认知和社会行为优势. 这些在早期发育中的性别差距仍然存在,并不受社会经济地位或家庭环境的影响.
科学领域:
- 儿童发展 儿童发展
- 教育心理学教育心理学
- 社会经济学 社会经济学
背景情况:
- 现有研究突出显示,年龄较大的儿童在学业成绩和教育成就方面存在性别差距.
- 学前期是人力资本发展的关键窗口,但对发展中国家的早期儿童性别差距知之甚少.
研究的目的:
- 调查拉丁美洲和加勒比 (LAC) 国家的幼儿时期认知和社会行为技能的性别差异.
- 确定在老年儿童中观察到的女性优势是否延伸到LAC地区的学龄前年.
主要方法:
- 在LAC国家样本中分析认知和社会行为发展措施中的性别差异.
- 检查这些性别差距在发展成果分布中的稳定性.
- 评估性别差距与社会经济地位或家庭环境之间的相互作用.
主要成果:
- 女孩在早期儿童发育措施中经常比男孩有优势.
- 男孩比女孩更不可能表现出外化行为.
- 这些性别差距在不同水平的发展结果中保持相对稳定.
结论:
- 在LAC国家中,女性在认知和社会行为技能方面的优势在幼儿时期显而易见,反映了在老年儿童中看到的模式.
- 与高收入国家对年龄较大的儿童的发现不同,LAC的早期儿童性别差距不受社会经济地位或家庭环境的差异影响.
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