PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - William H. J. Hubbard
TI  - The Phantom Gender Difference in the College Wage Premium
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.46.3.568
DP  - 2011 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 568--586
VI  - 46
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/3/568.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/3/568.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2011 Jul 01; 46
AB  - 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.