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There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...
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mask two interesting patterns: (a) gender difference at the cohort level had vanished by the early 1950 birth cohort and …
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. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … family structure changes, we find that a simple change in preferences towards work can account for the remaining change in … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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