implications of these patterns, I build a quantitative model of the labor market with endogenous technology and training …

in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education …, this pa- per aims to analyze the gender gap in educational outcomes from different methods of evaluation and the gender gap … suggesting that evaluation systems might have gender biased impacts on students and the under- representation of females in top …

maternal education levels and gaps in outcomes are calculated between each group. Quantile decompositions of the pairwise gaps …

the interventions on college enrollment, graduation, and earnings in adulthood. I show that the career education …

1970 and 1975. Using the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, we find that the expansion caused men to increase education by … about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … obtain instrumental variables estimates of returns to schooling of about 6% for both men and women. -- return to education …

researchers. Economists have speculated for at least a century that the social returns to education may exceed the private returns … implementing individual fixed effects estimates. The individual fixed effect model shows that the external returns to education in … problem, we then implement the IV fixed effect estimates and find positive external returns to education at about 10%. We also …