The Phantom Gender Difference in the College Wage Premium

William H. J. Hubbard

Journal of Human Resources, 2011, vol. 46, issue 3

Abstract: A growing literature seeks to explain why so many more women than men now attend college. A commonly cited stylized fact is that the college wage premium is, and has been, higher for women than for men. After identifying and correcting a bias in estimates of college wage premiums, I find that there has been essentially no gender difference in the college wage premium for at least a decade. A similar pattern appears in quantile wage regressions and for advanced degree wage premiums.

Date: 2011
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