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Career & family : women's century-long journey toward equity

Goldin, Claudia - 2021

"In Career and Family, Claudia Goldin builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the … women who differ in terms of career, job, marriage, and children, in approximated years of graduation-1900s, 1920s, 1950s … of a serious empirical exploration that has not yet been put in a long-run historical context. Career and Family offers a …

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The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector : Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2011

Private for-profit institutions have been the fastest growing part of the U.S. higher education sector. For-profit enrollment increased from 0.2 percent to 9.1 percent of total enrollment in degree-granting schools from 1970 to 2009, and for-profit institutions account for the majority of...

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2012

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially just after 1970, and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women began to soar around the same year. We explore the relationship between these two changes and the diffusion of...

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