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View article: What Explains the Growing Gender Education Gap? The Effects of Parental Background, the Labor Market and the Marriage Market on College Attainment
What Explains the Growing Gender Education Gap? The Effects of Parental Background, the Labor Market and the Marriage Market on College Attainment Open
In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging ge…
View article: What Can Be Learned from the Economic Policies of Other Countries in Response to the Coronavirus Epidemic? Lessons from the First Wave
What Can Be Learned from the Economic Policies of Other Countries in Response to the Coronavirus Epidemic? Lessons from the First Wave Open
The coronavirus epidemic has instigated an economic crisis emanating from public health policies involving economic lockdown as well as behavioral reactions of workers and employers The developed world has not seen such an extent of econo…
View article: Career and Family Decisions: Cohorts Born 1935-1975
Career and Family Decisions: Cohorts Born 1935-1975 Open
Comparing the 1935 and 1975 U.S. birth cohorts, wages of married women grew twice as fast as for married men, and the wage gap between married and single women turned from negative to positive. The employment rate of married women also inc…
View article: Child Care and Human Development: Insights from Jewish History in Central and Eastern Europe, 1500-1930
Child Care and Human Development: Insights from Jewish History in Central and Eastern Europe, 1500-1930 Open
Economists growingly highlight the fundamental role that human capital formation, institutions, cultural transmission, and religious norms may each distinctively play in shaping health, knowledge, and wealth. We contribute to this debate b…
View article: Path Dependence and Occupations
Path Dependence and Occupations Open
Path dependence in occupations refers to the observed occupational distribution in a population or in a sub-population at a point in time that depends on changes that occurred years or centuries earlier. Path dependence in occupations can …
View article: Do Cognitive Skills Impact Growth or Levels of GDP Per Capita
Do Cognitive Skills Impact Growth or Levels of GDP Per Capita Open
Incredible policy attention has been given to the claim that an increase in the quality of education as measuredby international tests (e.g. PISA tests) has a significant impact on the GDP long-run growth rate (Hanushek and Woessmann, 2015…
View article: Sources of Change in the Life-Cycle Decisions of American Men and Women: 1962-2014
Sources of Change in the Life-Cycle Decisions of American Men and Women: 1962-2014 Open
We study life-cycle decisions of five cohorts of American men and women born from the 1930s to the 1970s in a unified econometric framework applied to CPS data. The men and women in our model make individual decisions when single, joint de…