RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Phantom Gender Difference in the College Wage Premium
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 568
OP 586
DO 10.3368/jhr.46.3.568
VO 46
IS 3
A1 Hubbard, William H. J.
YR 2011
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/3/568.abstract
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.