Claudia Buchmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Buchmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchmann |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHMANN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2910-3965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1348 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020
In the United States, women have earned more bachelor’s degrees than men since the mid-1980s. We examine the historical continuities in this trend and its sources, as well as changes since 2000 in gender gaps in advanced credentials, fields of study, types of institutions attended, and financing for higher education. The gender gap in bachelor’s degrees has remained stable at a high level over this period and a female advantage in advanced degree…
Gender Typicality and Academic Achievement among American High School Students
This study is the first to use nationally representative data to examine whether differences in gender-typical behaviors among adolescents are associated with high school academic performance and whether such associations vary by race or socioeconomic status. Using wave I data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and linked academic transcript data from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement study, we find that boys w…
Educational Systems and Gender Differences in Reading
Girls have a substantial advantage over boys in terms of reading performance throughout all OECD countries. This paper investigates whether the structure of a country’s educational system is related to this gender inequality in reading performance. We assess whether standardization of educational curricula and the age at which students are selected into educational tracks affect boys’ and girls’ reading performance differently. To test our hypoth…
Gender differences in educational adaptation of immigrant-origin youth in the United States
Immigrant-origin students (i.e., first- and second-generation immigrants) comprise roughly 20% of the US school-age population. Despite growing awareness of a female-favorable gender gap in educational performance, quantitative research on immigrant educat
Aligning Science Achievement and STEM Expectations for College Success
Siqi Han, Claudia Buchmann, Aligning Science Achievement and STEM Expectations for College Success: A Comparative Study of Curricular Standardization, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 1, Higher Education Effectiveness (April 2016), pp. 192-211
Motherhood and the Wages of Women in Professional Occupations
It is well established that mothers are paid less than childless women and that fathers tend to earn higher wages relative to childless men, but we do not know whether these findings apply to workers in all occupations. Using IPUMS and ACS data from 1980 and 2010, we examine the family wage gap for highly educated professionals, the most advantaged sector of the occupational distribution. Results indicate that the size of the negative wage differ…
Learning Beyond the School Walls
Academically-focused learning activities beyond formal schooling are expanding in myriad forms throughout the world. This diverse realm of learning activities includes private supplementary education purchased by families such as private tutoring, online courses, cram schools, and learning center franchises. Some public schools also provide academically oriented after-school programs beyond their formal curricula. This review identifies factors r…
Gender Inequality in Educational Attainment
Just a few decades ago in most nations in the world, women completed far less schooling than men. Today, throughout much of the world, the reverse is true, and on average, women complete more years of schooling than men. This essay identifies important cross‐national trends in gender inequalities in educational attainment, outlines foundational and cutting‐edge research on the topic and suggests directions for future research. We examine US‐based…
Status Attainment
Status attainment research begun by sociologists in the United States more than three decades ago laid the foundation for the study of the transmission of socioeconomic advantage from one generation to the next (also known as intergenerational social mobility). Status attainment research seeks to understand how characteristics of an individual's family (also called socioeconomic origins) relate to their educational attainment and occupational sta…
The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment
It is often asserted that the gender gap in educational attainment is larger for blacks than whites, but historical trends comparing the black and white gender gap have received surprisingly little attention. Analysis of historical data from the U.S. census IPUMS samples shows that the gender gap in college completion has evolved differently for whites and blacks. Historically, the female advantage in educational attainment among blacks is linked…
Shadow Education, American Style
Cross-national research finds that "shadow education" — educational activities outside of formal schooling — tends to confer advantages on already privileged students. Shadow education in the United States, such as test prep for college entrance exams, has received considerably less attention. Drawing on the National Education Longitudinal Study, we analyze the likelihood of participation in, and the implications of, SAT preparation. Social class…
Stratification and the formation of expectations in highly differentiated educational systems
Interracial Friendships in the Transition to College
Because of segregation in neighborhoods and schools, college may provide the first opportunity for many young adults to interact closely with members of different racial and ethnic groups. Little research has examined how interracial friendships form during this period. This article investigates changes in the racial composition of friendship networks in the transition from high school to college and how aspects of the college environment are rel…
Gender Inequalities in Education
The terrain of gender inequalities in education has seen much change in recent decades. This article reviews the empirical research and theoretical perspectives on gender inequalities in educational performance and attainment from early childhood to young adulthood. Much of the literature on children and adolescents attends to performance differences between girls and boys. Of course, achievement in elementary and secondary school is linked to th…
Status Attainment
Status attainment research begun by sociologists in the United States more than three decades ago laid the foundation for the study of the transmission of socioeconomic advantage from one generation to the next (also called intergenerational social mobility). Status attainment research seeks to understand how characteristics of an individual's family background (also called socioeconomic origins) relate to his or her educational attainment and oc…
Gender-specific trends in the value of education and the emerging gender gap in college completion
Analysis of March Current Population Survey data from 1964 through 2002 shows that white women overtook white men in their rates of college completion and that this phenomenon occurred during a period in which women’s standard-of-living gains from college completion grew at a faster rate than those for men. We assess whether these trends are related to changes in the value of education for men and women in terms of earnings returns to higher educ…
The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion
In a few short decades, the gender gap in college completion has reversed from favoring men to favoring women. This study, which is the first to assess broadly the causes of the growing female advantage in college completion, considers the impact of family resources as well as gender differences in academic performance and in the pathways to college completion on the rising gender gap. Analyses of General Social Survey data indicate that the fema…
Global Educational Expansion and Socio-Economic Development
The Black-White Achievement Gap in the First College Year
Interpersonal Influences and Educational Aspirations in 12 Countries
Research in the United States has found that peers and parents play an important role in shaping students' educational aspirations. Little research has examined the extent to which these findings apply in other countries or whether the role of significant others varies according to the organization of national educational systems. This article examines the effects of peers' and parents' attitudes regarding academic performance on students' educat…
Education and Stratification in Developing Countries
This review examines research on education and inequality in developing regions. In tracing the progress of this field of inquiry, it focuses on empirical studies of educational inequality in four broad areas: macro-structural forces shaping education and stratification; the relationship between family background and educational outcomes; school effects; and education's impact on economic and social mobility. It assesses the contributions of rese…
Family Structure, Parental Perceptions, and Child Labor in Kenya
This article combines status attainment research with research on values and beliefs to understand educational stratification in Kenya. With household survey data, I examine the impact of family background and structure, division of household labor, and parental perceptions on children's educational participation. Parents' expectations for future financial help from children and perceptions of labor-market discrimination against women are signifi…
Employment and Unemployment in Kerala
Introduction Employment and Unemployment Definition, Concept and Methodology Employment Levels, Statuses and Patterns Underemployment and Unemployment Educated Unemployment Socio-Economic Aspects The Unemployed and the Self-Employed Job Preferences and Employment Perspectives Summary and Conclusions
The State and Schooling in Kenya
This paper examines the role of the Kenyan state in regards to the historical development and expansion of the educational system and the current educational challenges facing the country. Like other post-colonial states, the "fragile" Kenyan state has been severely constrained in its efforts to build a modern and meritocratic educational system. In tracing the government's educational activities and policies from independence to the present, it …
The Debt Crisis, Structural Adjustment and Women's Education
Recently, the United Nations estimated the total cost of meeting basic human needs in Africa - for education, health, nutrition, and family planning - at $9 billion a year. A high price? It is less than the more than $10 billion that Africa is currently repaving in the form of interest on its foreign debt. Actually, this $10 billion is only one-third of the annual interest due on Africa's debt burden which, most experts agree, will never be repai…
The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion
In a few short decades, the gender gap in college completion has reversed from favoring men to favoring women. This study, which is the first to assess broadly the causes of the growing female advantage in college completion, considers the impact of family resources as well as gender differences in academic performance and in the pathways to college completion on the rising gender gap. Analyses of General Social Survey data indicate that the fema…
Gender Inequalities in Education
The terrain of gender inequalities in education has seen much change in recent decades. This article reviews the empirical research and theoretical perspectives on gender inequalities in educational performance and attainment from early childhood to young adulthood. Much of the literature on children and adolescents attends to performance differences between girls and boys. Of course, achievement in elementary and secondary school is linked to th…
Shadow Education, American Style
Cross-national research finds that "shadow education" — educational activities outside of formal schooling — tends to confer advantages on already privileged students. Shadow education in the United States, such as test prep for college entrance exams, has received considerably less attention. Drawing on the National Education Longitudinal Study, we analyze the likelihood of participation in, and the implications of, SAT preparation. Social class…
Gender-specific trends in the value of education and the emerging gender gap in college completion
Analysis of March Current Population Survey data from 1964 through 2002 shows that white women overtook white men in their rates of college completion and that this phenomenon occurred during a period in which women’s standard-of-living gains from college completion grew at a faster rate than those for men. We assess whether these trends are related to changes in the value of education for men and women in terms of earnings returns to higher educ…
Learning Beyond the School Walls
Academically-focused learning activities beyond formal schooling are expanding in myriad forms throughout the world. This diverse realm of learning activities includes private supplementary education purchased by families such as private tutoring, online courses, cram schools, and learning center franchises. Some public schools also provide academically oriented after-school programs beyond their formal curricula. This review identifies factors r…
Interpersonal Influences and Educational Aspirations in 12 Countries
Research in the United States has found that peers and parents play an important role in shaping students' educational aspirations. Little research has examined the extent to which these findings apply in other countries or whether the role of significant others varies according to the organization of national educational systems. This article examines the effects of peers' and parents' attitudes regarding academic performance on students' educat…
Stratification and the formation of expectations in highly differentiated educational systems
Interracial Friendships in the Transition to College
Because of segregation in neighborhoods and schools, college may provide the first opportunity for many young adults to interact closely with members of different racial and ethnic groups. Little research has examined how interracial friendships form during this period. This article investigates changes in the racial composition of friendship networks in the transition from high school to college and how aspects of the college environment are rel…
Global Educational Expansion and Socio-Economic Development
The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment
It is often asserted that the gender gap in educational attainment is larger for blacks than whites, but historical trends comparing the black and white gender gap have received surprisingly little attention. Analysis of historical data from the U.S. census IPUMS samples shows that the gender gap in college completion has evolved differently for whites and blacks. Historically, the female advantage in educational attainment among blacks is linked…
The Debt Crisis, Structural Adjustment and Women's Education
Recently, the United Nations estimated the total cost of meeting basic human needs in Africa - for education, health, nutrition, and family planning - at $9 billion a year. A high price? It is less than the more than $10 billion that Africa is currently repaving in the form of interest on its foreign debt. Actually, this $10 billion is only one-third of the annual interest due on Africa's debt burden which, most experts agree, will never be repai…
Family Structure, Parental Perceptions, and Child Labor in Kenya
This article combines status attainment research with research on values and beliefs to understand educational stratification in Kenya. With household survey data, I examine the impact of family background and structure, division of household labor, and parental perceptions on children's educational participation. Parents' expectations for future financial help from children and perceptions of labor-market discrimination against women are signifi…
Educational Systems and Gender Differences in Reading
Girls have a substantial advantage over boys in terms of reading performance throughout all OECD countries. This paper investigates whether the structure of a country’s educational system is related to this gender inequality in reading performance. We assess whether standardization of educational curricula and the age at which students are selected into educational tracks affect boys’ and girls’ reading performance differently. To test our hypoth…
Motherhood and the Wages of Women in Professional Occupations
It is well established that mothers are paid less than childless women and that fathers tend to earn higher wages relative to childless men, but we do not know whether these findings apply to workers in all occupations. Using IPUMS and ACS data from 1980 and 2010, we examine the family wage gap for highly educated professionals, the most advantaged sector of the occupational distribution. Results indicate that the size of the negative wage differ…
The State and Schooling in Kenya
This paper examines the role of the Kenyan state in regards to the historical development and expansion of the educational system and the current educational challenges facing the country. Like other post-colonial states, the "fragile" Kenyan state has been severely constrained in its efforts to build a modern and meritocratic educational system. In tracing the government's educational activities and policies from independence to the present, it …
Gender Typicality and Academic Achievement among American High School Students
This study is the first to use nationally representative data to examine whether differences in gender-typical behaviors among adolescents are associated with high school academic performance and whether such associations vary by race or socioeconomic status. Using wave I data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and linked academic transcript data from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement study, we find that boys w…
Gender differences in educational adaptation of immigrant-origin youth in the United States
Immigrant-origin students (i.e., first- and second-generation immigrants) comprise roughly 20% of the US school-age population. Despite growing awareness of a female-favorable gender gap in educational performance, quantitative research on immigrant educat
The Black-White Achievement Gap in the First College Year
The Debt Crisis, Structural Adjustment and Women's Education
Recently, the United Nations estimated the total cost of meeting basic human needs in Africa - for education, health, nutrition, and family planning - at $9 billion a year. A high price? It is less than the more than $10 billion that Africa is currently repaving in the form of interest on its foreign debt. Actually, this $10 billion is only one-third of the annual interest due on Africa's debt burden which, most experts agree, will never be repai…
Employment and Unemployment in Kerala
Introduction Employment and Unemployment Definition, Concept and Methodology Employment Levels, Statuses and Patterns Underemployment and Unemployment Educated Unemployment Socio-Economic Aspects The Unemployed and the Self-Employed Job Preferences and Employment Perspectives Summary and Conclusions
The State and Schooling in Kenya
This paper examines the role of the Kenyan state in regards to the historical development and expansion of the educational system and the current educational challenges facing the country. Like other post-colonial states, the "fragile" Kenyan state has been severely constrained in its efforts to build a modern and meritocratic educational system. In tracing the government's educational activities and policies from independence to the present, it …
Family Structure, Parental Perceptions, and Child Labor in Kenya
This article combines status attainment research with research on values and beliefs to understand educational stratification in Kenya. With household survey data, I examine the impact of family background and structure, division of household labor, and parental perceptions on children's educational participation. Parents' expectations for future financial help from children and perceptions of labor-market discrimination against women are signifi…
Education and Stratification in Developing Countries
This review examines research on education and inequality in developing regions. In tracing the progress of this field of inquiry, it focuses on empirical studies of educational inequality in four broad areas: macro-structural forces shaping education and stratification; the relationship between family background and educational outcomes; school effects; and education's impact on economic and social mobility. It assesses the contributions of rese…
Interpersonal Influences and Educational Aspirations in 12 Countries
Research in the United States has found that peers and parents play an important role in shaping students' educational aspirations. Little research has examined the extent to which these findings apply in other countries or whether the role of significant others varies according to the organization of national educational systems. This article examines the effects of peers' and parents' attitudes regarding academic performance on students' educat…
The Black-White Achievement Gap in the First College Year
Global Educational Expansion and Socio-Economic Development
Gender-specific trends in the value of education and the emerging gender gap in college completion
Analysis of March Current Population Survey data from 1964 through 2002 shows that white women overtook white men in their rates of college completion and that this phenomenon occurred during a period in which women’s standard-of-living gains from college completion grew at a faster rate than those for men. We assess whether these trends are related to changes in the value of education for men and women in terms of earnings returns to higher educ…
The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion
In a few short decades, the gender gap in college completion has reversed from favoring men to favoring women. This study, which is the first to assess broadly the causes of the growing female advantage in college completion, considers the impact of family resources as well as gender differences in academic performance and in the pathways to college completion on the rising gender gap. Analyses of General Social Survey data indicate that the fema…
Status Attainment
Status attainment research begun by sociologists in the United States more than three decades ago laid the foundation for the study of the transmission of socioeconomic advantage from one generation to the next (also called intergenerational social mobility). Status attainment research seeks to understand how characteristics of an individual's family background (also called socioeconomic origins) relate to his or her educational attainment and oc…
Gender Inequalities in Education
The terrain of gender inequalities in education has seen much change in recent decades. This article reviews the empirical research and theoretical perspectives on gender inequalities in educational performance and attainment from early childhood to young adulthood. Much of the literature on children and adolescents attends to performance differences between girls and boys. Of course, achievement in elementary and secondary school is linked to th…
Stratification and the formation of expectations in highly differentiated educational systems
Interracial Friendships in the Transition to College
Because of segregation in neighborhoods and schools, college may provide the first opportunity for many young adults to interact closely with members of different racial and ethnic groups. Little research has examined how interracial friendships form during this period. This article investigates changes in the racial composition of friendship networks in the transition from high school to college and how aspects of the college environment are rel…
Shadow Education, American Style
Cross-national research finds that "shadow education" — educational activities outside of formal schooling — tends to confer advantages on already privileged students. Shadow education in the United States, such as test prep for college entrance exams, has received considerably less attention. Drawing on the National Education Longitudinal Study, we analyze the likelihood of participation in, and the implications of, SAT preparation. Social class…
The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment
It is often asserted that the gender gap in educational attainment is larger for blacks than whites, but historical trends comparing the black and white gender gap have received surprisingly little attention. Analysis of historical data from the U.S. census IPUMS samples shows that the gender gap in college completion has evolved differently for whites and blacks. Historically, the female advantage in educational attainment among blacks is linked…
Gender Inequality in Educational Attainment
Just a few decades ago in most nations in the world, women completed far less schooling than men. Today, throughout much of the world, the reverse is true, and on average, women complete more years of schooling than men. This essay identifies important cross‐national trends in gender inequalities in educational attainment, outlines foundational and cutting‐edge research on the topic and suggests directions for future research. We examine US‐based…
Status Attainment
Status attainment research begun by sociologists in the United States more than three decades ago laid the foundation for the study of the transmission of socioeconomic advantage from one generation to the next (also known as intergenerational social mobility). Status attainment research seeks to understand how characteristics of an individual's family (also called socioeconomic origins) relate to their educational attainment and occupational sta…
Aligning Science Achievement and STEM Expectations for College Success
Siqi Han, Claudia Buchmann, Aligning Science Achievement and STEM Expectations for College Success: A Comparative Study of Curricular Standardization, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 1, Higher Education Effectiveness (April 2016), pp. 192-211
Motherhood and the Wages of Women in Professional Occupations
It is well established that mothers are paid less than childless women and that fathers tend to earn higher wages relative to childless men, but we do not know whether these findings apply to workers in all occupations. Using IPUMS and ACS data from 1980 and 2010, we examine the family wage gap for highly educated professionals, the most advantaged sector of the occupational distribution. Results indicate that the size of the negative wage differ…
Learning Beyond the School Walls
Academically-focused learning activities beyond formal schooling are expanding in myriad forms throughout the world. This diverse realm of learning activities includes private supplementary education purchased by families such as private tutoring, online courses, cram schools, and learning center franchises. Some public schools also provide academically oriented after-school programs beyond their formal curricula. This review identifies factors r…
Gender differences in educational adaptation of immigrant-origin youth in the United States
Immigrant-origin students (i.e., first- and second-generation immigrants) comprise roughly 20% of the US school-age population. Despite growing awareness of a female-favorable gender gap in educational performance, quantitative research on immigrant educat
Gender Typicality and Academic Achievement among American High School Students
This study is the first to use nationally representative data to examine whether differences in gender-typical behaviors among adolescents are associated with high school academic performance and whether such associations vary by race or socioeconomic status. Using wave I data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and linked academic transcript data from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement study, we find that boys w…
Educational Systems and Gender Differences in Reading
Girls have a substantial advantage over boys in terms of reading performance throughout all OECD countries. This paper investigates whether the structure of a country’s educational system is related to this gender inequality in reading performance. We assess whether standardization of educational curricula and the age at which students are selected into educational tracks affect boys’ and girls’ reading performance differently. To test our hypoth…
The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020
In the United States, women have earned more bachelor’s degrees than men since the mid-1980s. We examine the historical continuities in this trend and its sources, as well as changes since 2000 in gender gaps in advanced credentials, fields of study, types of institutions attended, and financing for higher education. The gender gap in bachelor’s degrees has remained stable at a high level over this period and a female advantage in advanced degree…
Sociology (20 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Economics (15 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · School Choice and Performance (10 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Educational attainment (8 works)