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and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …
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, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …
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This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
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Women used to lag behind but now exceed men in college enrollment. We show that changes in non-college job prospects contributed to these trends. We first doc- ument that routine-biased technical change disproportionately displaced non-college occupations held by women. We then show that these...
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later years. Recessions at high-school graduation narrow the gender gaps in numeracy skills and labor-market success. …
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