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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...

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Constrained After College : Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

Rothstein, Jesse - 2007

that students choose low-paid "public interest" jobs. We also find some evidence that debt affects students' academic … that debt reduces students' donations to the institution in the years after they graduate and increases the likelihood that …

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Are Lots of College Graduates Taking High School Jobs? A Reconsiderationof the Evidence

Tyler, John - 1995

Several recent published papers have asserted that a growing proportion of workers with college degrees are either unemployed or employed in jobs requiring only high school skills. Using data from the 1980 and 1990 Censuses of Population and Housing, we show that this assertion does not...

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Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition

Canes, Brandice J. - 1994

composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were …

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Engineering Educational Opportunity : Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science

Weinberger, Catherine J. - 2017

exclusion. Initial efforts to improve the access of black students to engineering education focused on six historically black … their students for expanded career choices." Geographic and institutional features of the higher education infrastructure … led to differential impacts of these policies on students born in different states. A data panel assembled for the project …

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Teaching, Teachers Pensions and Retirement across Recent Cohorts of College Graduate Women

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2016

Labor force participation rates of college-educated women ages 60 to 64 increased by 20 percent (10 percentage points) between 2000 and 2010. One potential explanation for this change stems from the fact that fewer college-educated women in the more recent cohorts were ever teachers. This...

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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

How will countries handle idiosyncratic national macroeconomic shocks under the European single currency? The ways in which European countries now react to internally asymmetric shocks provide a better forecast than do the regional response pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare...

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Poisoned Grapes, Mad Cow, and Protectionism

Engel, Eduardo - 1999

This paper studies two episodes where an exporting industry saw its sales plummet after importing countries banned their products to protect their citizens' health. The first case is the poisoned grapes crisis involving Chile and the United States in 1989. The second is the mad cows dispute...

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Estimates of the Value of Patent Rights in European Countries During thePost-1950 Period

Schankerman, Mark - 1985

This paper examines the distribution of the values of patent rights in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany during the post-1950 period. These values are inferred from the behavior of patentees with respect to payment of renewal fees on their patents. A simple economic model of renewal...

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Global Effects of the Brexit Referendum : Evidence from US Corporations

Campello, Murillo - 2020

We show that the 2016 Brexit Referendum led American corporations to cut jobs and investment within US borders. Using establishment-level data, we document that these effects were modulated by the degree of reversibility of capital and labor. American job losses were particularly pronounced in...

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