Goldin, Claudia; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2006
Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … determinants, can account for 30 to 60 percent of the relative increase in women's college completion rate. Behind these changes … were several others: the future work expectations of young women increased greatly between 1968 and 1979 and the age at …