Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kuziemko, Ilyana - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 20 (2006) 4, pp. 133-156
Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 percent of undergraduates in 1960. We use three longitudinal data sets of high school graduates in 1957, 1972, and 1992 to understand the narrowing of the gender gap in college and...
