Add to ORKGThis paper documents a dramatic increase in the college enrollment rate of women from 1955 to 1980 and asks a quantitative question: to what extent can such increase be accounted for by the change in the female cohort-specific college wage premium? I develop and calibrate an overlapping generations model with discrete schooling choice. I find that changes in the life-cycle earnings differential can explain the increase in the female college enrollment rate very well. Young women's changing expectations of future earnings may also play an important role in driving their college attendance decision
and later as GIs returned from World War II. A highpoint of gender imbalance in college attendance w...
Recent trends in higher education suggest that there are more women than men enrolled and that more ...
In this paper I examine the gender dynamics of overeducation, a phenomenon defined as the possession...
This paper documents a dramatic increase in the college enrollment rate of women from 1955 to 1980 a...
[Excerpt] This paper will attempt to determine the extent to which changes in female college attenda...
[Excerpt] This paper analyzes the response of female college attendance and completion rates to chan...
Why have women surpassed men in terms of educational attainment, even though they appear to have les...
The objective of this paper is to explain the reduction in the U.S. sex college attainment ratio (SC...
This paper summarizes the dramatic changes in relative male-females educational attainment over the ...
The objective of this article is to explain the reduction in the US sex college attainment ratio (SC...
women overtook white men in their rates of college completion and that this phenomenon occurred duri...
The enrollment of women in American institutions of higher learning passed that of men for the first...
Rising average levels of educational attainment, a shift from the predominance of men to the predomi...
The last forty years have witnessed a remarkable boom in higher education around the world. Importan...
One striking phenomenon in the U.S. labor market is the reversal of the gender gap in college attain...
and later as GIs returned from World War II. A highpoint of gender imbalance in college attendance w...
Recent trends in higher education suggest that there are more women than men enrolled and that more ...
In this paper I examine the gender dynamics of overeducation, a phenomenon defined as the possession...
This paper documents a dramatic increase in the college enrollment rate of women from 1955 to 1980 a...
[Excerpt] This paper will attempt to determine the extent to which changes in female college attenda...
[Excerpt] This paper analyzes the response of female college attendance and completion rates to chan...
Why have women surpassed men in terms of educational attainment, even though they appear to have les...
The objective of this paper is to explain the reduction in the U.S. sex college attainment ratio (SC...
This paper summarizes the dramatic changes in relative male-females educational attainment over the ...
The objective of this article is to explain the reduction in the US sex college attainment ratio (SC...
women overtook white men in their rates of college completion and that this phenomenon occurred duri...
The enrollment of women in American institutions of higher learning passed that of men for the first...
Rising average levels of educational attainment, a shift from the predominance of men to the predomi...
The last forty years have witnessed a remarkable boom in higher education around the world. Importan...
One striking phenomenon in the U.S. labor market is the reversal of the gender gap in college attain...
and later as GIs returned from World War II. A highpoint of gender imbalance in college attendance w...
Recent trends in higher education suggest that there are more women than men enrolled and that more ...
In this paper I examine the gender dynamics of overeducation, a phenomenon defined as the possession...