Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … determinants, can account for 30 to 60 percent of the relative increase in women's college completion rate. Behind these changes … were several others: the future work expectations of young women increased greatly between 1968 and 1979 and the age at …

Recent lab and field experiments suggest that women are less effective than men in a competitive environment. In this … in teachers' awareness and familiarity with the program and its rules, and in effort and teaching methods. Women though … were more pessimistic about the effectiveness of teachers' performance pay and more realistic than men about their …

males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages …

BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … mass index (BMI). Using data from the 1986 and 1999-2005 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we estimate semi-parametric wage … models that allow earnings to vary with BMI in a highly flexible manner. For women, the results show that earnings peak at …

-experimental variation in state spending. Unlike previous measures, we find that high-income-modest-ability students especially benefit since …