education: college major choice and demographic diversity, including the race/ethnicity, and gender of students. More broadly …

gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college … majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying gender gap. Since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of … outcomes realized at the workplace explain a substantial part of the choice for males. I decompose the gender gap into …

gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college … majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying gender gap. Since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of … outcomes realized at the workplace explain a substantial part of the choice for males. I decompose the gender gap into …

define within-family transmission functions with 1-to-2 matches (1 for each parent). Using the confidential major file of the … assortative preferences isolated from ability sorting and unobserved differences across majors and other family characteristics …

the first half of working life, coinciding with fertility cycles of women. After age 40, there has been substantial gender …We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection …, permitting us to construct gender- and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within …

that there are gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. In particular …. However, the direction of the gender effect differs significantly by education. Only females among the college educated are … of match quality compared to the older cohort, while the new generation of women is doing better on average. …

This paper looks at horizontal sex segregation in education as a factor contributing to gender segregation in the labor … market. Economic theories fail to explain why women with the same years of schooling and educational attainment as men are … (2000), I research whether gender identity affects boys' and girls' educational choices and when the gendered pattern …