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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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Career and Family : College Women Look to the Past

Goldin, Claudia - 2021

Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family. Tracing the demographic and labor force experiences of four cohorts of college women across the past century allows us to observe the choices each made and how the constraints...

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Constrained after College : Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

Rothstein, Jesse - 2007

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

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

Canes, Brandice J. - 2011

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

Tyler, John H.; Murnane, Richard J.; Levy, Frank S. - 2021

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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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 Donovan - 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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Strong Sterling Pound and Weak European Currencies in the Crises : Evidence from Covered Interest Parity of Secured Rates

Fukuda, Shin-Ichi - 2016

In the post Lehman period, the interest rate of the US dollar became low on the forward contract because of“flight to quality” to the international currency. However, in the Euro crisis, that of the Sterling pound became equally low, while the other European currencies such as the Danish...

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The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production

McGrattan, Ellen - 2017

In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are based on simulations of a multicountry neoclassical growth model that includes multinational firms...

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Brexit Uncertainty and Trade Disintegration

Graziano, Alejandro - 2018

We estimate the uncertainty effects of preferential trade disagreements. Increases in the probability of Britain's exit from the European Union (Brexit) reduce bilateral export values and trade participation. These effects are increasing in trade policy risk across products and asymmetric for UK...

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