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smaller economic returns, such as education and humanities degrees, especially for men. …
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, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement …
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Women have historically been underrepresented in STEM majors and occupations, a gap that has persisted over time. There are concerns that this is related to academic choices made at an earlier age. The purpose of this paper is to examine how social environment affects women's STEM choices as...
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, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using student-level administrative data on achievement …
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Men have fallen behind women in education in developed countries. Why? I study the impact of a transitory increase in … opportunity increased the dropout rate and led to a permanent loss in years of education for young men, but had no effect on the … education of women. Male dropouts suffer substantial losses in lifetime earnings, slow career progression, and reduced marriage …
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Men have fallen behind women in education in developed countries. Why? I study the impact of a transitory increase in … opportunity increased the dropout rate and led to a permanent loss in years of education for young men, but had no effect on the … education of women. Male dropouts suffer substantial losses in lifetime earnings, slow career progression, and reduced marriage …
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This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...
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Participation in Career Technical Education (CTE) programs has been proposed as a valuable strategy for supporting …
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view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data, we show that while in terms of attainment of tertiary education women … demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts … education continues. …
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expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …
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