Gender-Specific Trends in the Value of Education and the Emerging Gender Gap in College Completion.

Analysis of March Current Population Survey data from 1964 through 2002 shows that white women overtook white men in their rates of college completion and that this phenomenon occurred during a period in which women's standard-of-living gains from college completion grew at a faster rate than those...

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Published in:Demography Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25
Main Authors: DiPrete, Thomas A., Buchmann, Claudia
Format: Article
Published: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. February 2006
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