What accounts for the increase in college attainment of women?

Virginia Sanchez-Marcos

Applied Economics Letters, 2007, vol. 15, issue 1, 41-44

Abstract: The objective of this article is to explain the reduction in the US sex college attainment ratio (SCAR) from 1.57 to 1.19. over the last decades. We use a model where altruistic parents make decisions on daughters and sons' education taking into account the effect of education on earnings, marriage opportunities, fertility and home production. The main finding is that observed changes in earnings and fertility explain part of the decrease in the SCAR, while observed changes in marital status and marital sorting imply a decrease in college attainment of women.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850600606091

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