Why Are the Returns to Schooling Higher for Women than for Men?

By C. Dougherty. The Journal of human resources, 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market (2009, background): “There is some evidence that this is indeed the case and that the gender gap declines with schooling (Dougherty, 2005).”
The Reversal of Gender Inequalities in Higher Education (2008, result): “With regard to wages alone, the increase in the wage premium related to higher education is not significantly higher for women than for men, even though that is not the case according to some estimates (Dougherty, 2005; Jacob, 2002; Murphy and Welch, 1992).”
Earnings differentiation in the tourism industry: Gender, human capital and socio-demographic effects (2008, background): “For example, according to Dougherty (2005), the returns to education tend to be higher among women than among men.”
Gender Differences in Education (2012, unknown): “Dougherty (2005) cites 27 U.S studies of which 18 report unambiguously higher returns for women.”
OLS and IV estimation of regression models including endogenous interaction terms (2019, methodology): “It can therefore also be interpreted as a parametric implementation of the semiparametric approach by Escanciano et al. (2016). Obviously the instruments in (4) are exogenous under Assumption 1 and strong for instrumenting the interaction term.3 However, their relevance for instrumenting xi is only ”
The effect of education on poverty: A European perspective (2021, background): “(19)Examples are Brunello, Fabbri and Fort (2013); Brunello et al.”
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “Earlier work by Dougherty (2005) and others suggested that returns measured in this way were higher for women, but Hubbard (2011) presents evidence that this is not the case when topcoding in the major dataset used in these studies, the CPS, is corrected. for government contractors (evidence on…”