Why Do Boys Develop Slower Than Girls?

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What is the theory behind why boys are have ther sa prefom cortex develop slower than girls? I don't know, that's a good question. Mi, length, i love that section. Red shirting. It applies to cognition too. E, redshirt, red shitalloys. Ye ok. Wat, yess. And particularly to none cognitive skil. So you get, you get the dopermine reward, and so on too. Am er, larry steinberg has this great book on adolescence,. There's a chart from there that i couldn't quite make work for the book, which looks at two factors, impulse control and sensation seeking over overtime. The

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.