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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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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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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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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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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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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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