Accounting for Gender Gap in College Attainment
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چکیده
One striking phenomenon in the U.S. labor market is the reversal of the gender gap in college attainment. Females have outnumbered males in college attainment since 1987. We develop a discrete choice model of college entry decisions to study the effects of changes in relative earnings, changes in parental education, and changes in the marriage market on time series observations of college attainment by gender. We find that the increasing relative earnings between college and high school individuals and increases in parental education have important effects on the increase in college attainment for both genders, The decrease in marriage rates is crucial in explaining the reversal of the gender gap in college attainment.
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