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Title: Essays on the Gender Gap and the Effects of Secondary School Expansion: Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century's High School Movement

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Rapid economic and social change characterized the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One salient aspect of this change concerned investment in formal educational attainment, which had significant implications for human capital accumulation in the labor force (Goldin and Katz 2007). Publicly funded high schools diffused throughout the U.S., and by the middle of the twentieth century four years of high school became a normal part of life. At the same time, many women entered the formal labor market, and relatively welleducated women often found employment as schoolteachers. In addition, the South began to industrialize and urbanize, and improvements . . .

Url: https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07182016-120224/unrestricted/Moody.pdf

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Authors: Moody, Michael Quinn

Institution: Vanderbilt University

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Topics: Education, Gender

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