-college occupations held by women. We then show that these lower non-college job prospects for women increase female enrollment using a … occupations for women, leading them to shift to cognitive work and increasing their college premiums. In contrast, non-college men …’s occupations were less suscep- tible to routinization. Altogether, our model estimates that workplace routinization accounted for …

Women used to lag behind but now exceed men in college enrollment. This paper shows that examining occupations which … require only a high school degree ("non-college" occupations) can help resolve two puzzles related to this phenomenon. First … non-college occupations for men are both more plentiful and higher paying than those for women. Next, I link the …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …-intensive occupations displaced the non-college occupations of women, raising female enrollment. Embedding this instrumental variation into … a dynamic Roy model, we find that routinization decreased returns to the non-college occupations of women, increasing …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …), within school-cohort and teacher-group, was not chosen by the students and it was as good as random. We find that male … students graduating from classes with at least 80% of male peers were more likely to choose "prevalently male" (PM) college …

, 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 … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post … for their greater prior achievement, and this is true in both non-STEM and STEM fields. Disabled students, students from … disadvantaged schools, and students who qualify for means-tested financial aid are less likely to complete and less likely to obtain …

Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full … socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education. …

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full … socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education. …