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Putting the Co in Education : Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2010

The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...

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Changes in the Structure of Wages : The U.S. versus Japan

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1989

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since … wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In contrast to the large expansion in experience differentials for high … and college graduates in Japan from 1979 to 1987. Macroeconomic factors (increased openness, trade deficits, and labor …

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The labor market in the Great Recession

Elsby, Michael W. L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Ayşegül - In: Brookings papers on economic activity : BPEA (2010) 1, pp. 1-48

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Long-run changes in the wage structure : narrowing, widening, polarizing

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - In: Brookings papers on economic activity : BPEA (2007) 2, pp. 135-167

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Regional evolutions

Blanchard, Olivier - In: Brookings papers on economic activity : BPEA (1992), pp. 1-75

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The high-pressure US labor market of the 1990s

Katz, Lawrence F.; Krueger, Alan B. - In: Brookings papers on economic activity : BPEA (1999) 1, pp. 1-65, 82-87

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How much do immigration and trade affect labor market outcomes?

Borjas, George J. - In: Brookings papers on economic activity : BPEA (1997), pp. 1-90

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Macroeconomic performance and the disadvantaged

Cutler, David M. - In: Brookings papers on economic activity : BPEA (1991), pp. 1-74

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the first to inquire of wage and salary income and...

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