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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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Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
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