1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …

, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using … effects of being assigned female math and science professors on occupation choice and postgraduate education. We find that …

This study examines the wage gender gap of young adults in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 in the US. Using quantile … regression we estimate the gender gap across the entire wage distribution. We also study the importance of high school … while some school characteristics are positive and significant predictors of future wages for Whites, they are less so for …

This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and …, but it is less so for the two minority groups. We confirm significant gender disparities in wages favoring men across … Study (NLS) of high school seniors in 1972 and the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) of eighth graders in 1988 …

social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative …

occupations in which they are employed. -- non-cognitive skills ; occupation ; youth ; gender …This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the … relationships differs for men and women, however. Noncognitive skills (intelligence and impulsivity) also influence movement into …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …