revisits the question of how attending an elite college affects later-life outcomes. We expand the scope along two dimensions …: we examine new outcomes related to labor force participation, human capital, and family formation and we do not restrict … men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family …

revisits the question of how attending an elite college affects later-life outcomes. We expand the scope along two dimensions …: we examine new outcomes related to labor force participation, human capital, and family formation and we do not restrict … men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family …

Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family … women in the past had a high success rate in combining family and career. Cohort I (graduating c. 1910) had a 50% rate of … its fertility history. It is also a cohort that can be studied using the N.L.S. Young Women. In 1991, when the group was …