This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under … women's college degree completion, earnings, and employment relative to non-Hispanic White women, driven largely by impacts … on Hispanic women. Thus, affirmative action bans resulted in an increase in racial/ethnic disparities in both college …

The literature on the narrowing of the gender wage gap during the 1980s considers, among other factors, the closing of … relative increase in women's enrollment in two-year colleges. With independent cross-sections developed using NLSY data, the … authors find that the gender wage gap narrowed by 0.0469 log points between 1985 and 1990 and by 0.0932 log points between …

-selection into taking the SAT. Our findings imply large effects of the choice of university admission criterion on admitted students …

younger women, as well as a higher rate of returns on education for women, the gender earnings gap is still large: 20 … capital on the gender earnings gap, both within cohorts and across cohorts using regression, Oaxaca-Blinder, and Juhn …-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the past few decades, Chinese women have staged a 'quiet revolution' in education and …