This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor … relative earnings of female students at graduation, closing the gender gap in earnings at graduation by two-thirds. The effects … in the characteristics of the first job at graduation largely explains the effect of peer gender composition on long …

market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We demonstrate that the same genetic score that predicts education … is also associated with higher wages, but only among individuals with a college education. Moreover, the genetic gradient …

Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market … recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that … displacement. When accounting for observable differences in human Capital across men and women, half of the gender gap in …

We estimate the effects on postsecondary education outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise, a generous place-based college …

As the costs of higher education rise, many communities have begun to adopt their own financial aid strategy: place … future earning profiles by education, we examine the Promise's benefit-cost ratios for different types of students … differentiated by income, race, and gender. Although the average break-even rate of return of the program is about 11 percent, rates …

innovation are limited to cancer patients with postsecondary education, raising concerns about unequal access to improved …