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Title: The Role of Teenagers' Anticipated Future Labor Force Attachment

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Over the last several decades, U.S. women's rates of college attendance and completion, which used to be lower than men's, have grown to exceed men's rates by a considerable margin. Following work by Goldin, Katz, and Kuziemko (2006), this paper focuses on the role of teenagers' anticipated labor force participation in explaining the upward trend in women's college-going. A simple formal model implies that individuals with more anticipated lifetime hours of work are more likely to invest in college education. My analysis using data from three National Longitudinal Surveys supports the theoretical implication. This finding, combined with the trend towards higher work expectations of young women across birth cohorts, may account in part for the upward trends in women's college attendance and completion.

Url: https://msu.edu/~leejin9/college.pdf

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Authors: Lee, Jin Young

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States