Human Capital in History: The American Record

Leah Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert Margo

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JEL-codes: I24 N11 N12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Front matter, table of contents, acknowledgements , pp -12

Leah Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert Margo

Introduction to "Human Capital in History: The American Record" , pp 1-14

Leah Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert Margo

Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective , pp 15-57

Lawrence Katz and Robert Margo

Explaining Trends in High School Graduation: The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century , pp 59-89

Nora Gordon

Comment on "Explaining Trends in High School Graduation: The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century" , pp 89-95

Sarah J. Reber

The Role of Immigrant Children in Their Parents' Assimilation in the United States, 1850–2010 , pp 97-120

Ilyana Kuziemko and Joseph Ferrie

Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000 , pp 121-159

Hoyt Bleakley, Dora Costa and Adriana Lleras-Muney

The Female Labor Force and Long-Run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective , pp 161-197

Claudia Olivetti

Comment on "The Female Labor Force and Long-run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective" , pp 198-203

Francine Blau

The Origin and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation , pp 205-240

Leah Boustan and William Collins

Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950–2010 , pp 241-272

Shelly Lundberg and Robert Pollak

Is There a Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline , pp 273-312

Martha Bailey, Melanie Guldi and Brad J. Hershbein

A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings , pp 313-348

Claudia Goldin

Comment on "A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings" , pp 349-353

Cecilia Elena Rouse

The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs , pp 355-389

Edward Glaeser and Yueran Ma

Claudia Goldin , pp 391-394

Stanley L. Engerman

Indexes , pp 395-406

Leah Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert Margo

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