Race, Gender, Higher Education, and Socioeconomic Attainment: Evidence from Baby Boomers at Midlife.
This article investigates White, Black, and Hispanic men's and women's access and midlife labor market returns to college quality. To do so, we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 Cohort (NLSY-79), merged with college quality information from the Barron's Admissions Competit...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 100; no. 3; pp. 990 - 1025 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2022
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