because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility …

High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff … more general education into the vocational track, offered vocational students a pathway to college through a supplementary … vocational education in higher-paying skilled trade fields, while women almost exclusively pursue vocational education in lower …

We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last … changes in industry and age composition to the change in the gender composition of top earners. A large proportion of the … gender gaps over the life cycle, and gender differences among lifetime top earners …

mating, we instrument educational attainment using government spending on education in the years each person was of school …

.world), with particular emphasis on the contrast between the trends observed in the United States, China, France, and the United …

biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …

within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …

increases are found among families with more education and in counties with larger output gains due to reform. Proximately … accounted for roughly half of the increase in sex ratios in rural China from 1978-86, or about 1 million missing girls …