EVOLUTION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN POST-SECONDARY HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: COLLEGE MAJORS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gemici, Ahu; Wiswall, Matthew
• 署名单位: New York University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12040
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 23-56
• 关键词: general equilibrium-model; rising wage inequality; occupational choice; sex-differences; earnings; MARKET; school; returns; science; women

摘要

Although women in the United States now complete more college degrees than men, the distribution of college majors among college graduates remains unequal, with women about two-thirds as likely as men to major in business or science. We develop and estimate a dynamic, overlapping generations model of human capital investments and labor supply. We allow for specific college major choices, instead of aggregating these choices to the education level. Results show that changes in skill prices, higher schooling costs, and gender-specific changes in home value were each important to the long-term trends.