NDLI: A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap

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A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap

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Author	Sloane, Carolyn Hurst, Erik Black, Dan
Copyright Year	2019
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal This paper explores the importance of pre-market human capital specialization in ex-plaining gender diﬀerences in labor market outcomes among the highly skilled. Using new data with detailed undergraduate major information for several cohorts of American college graduates, we establish many novel facts. First, we show evidence of a gender convergence in college major choice over the last 40 years. Second, we highlight that women today still choose college majors associated with lower potential wages than men. Third, we report gender diﬀerences in the mapping from major to occupation. Even conditional on major, women systematically choose lower potential wage and lower potential hours-worked occupations than men. Fourth, we document a modest gender convergence between the 1950 and 1990 birth cohorts in the mapping of major to occupation. Finally, we show that college major choice has strong predictive power in explaining gender wage gaps independent of occupation choice. Collectively, our results suggest the importance of further understanding gender diﬀerences in pre-labor market specialization including college major choice.
Related Links	http://humcap.uchicago.edu/RePEc/hka/wpaper/Sloane_Hurst_etal_2019_cross-cohort-analysis-humcap.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3464022
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3464022
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2019-09-29
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Industrial Relations
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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