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Title: Educational Expansion, Field of Study, and Gender Inequalities in Skill Usage Across Four Cohort Studies
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Horowitz, Jonathan Ramaj, Sagi |
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Educational Expansion, Field of Study, and Gender Inequalities in Skill Usage Across Four Cohort Studies Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): College Degree; College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Gender Differences; Skills Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Does educational expansion have gendered and field-specific effects on the value of bachelor's degrees? Previous research suggests that if educational expansion weakens the value of a bachelor's degree, then less prestigious majors would be disadvantaged versus more prestigious majors, and women would be disadvantaged compared to men. We analyze data from four different studies conducted by the National Longitudinal Surveys spanning cohorts born as early as 1943 and as late as 1984. Multilevel regression models and predicted analytic skill scores provide some evidence for the hypothesized argument, but the value of men's degrees changed in ways that are inconsistent with the prior theory. Furthermore, not a single field of study responded the same way to educational expansion across both men and women. The findings suggest that the effects of educational expansion on analytic skill usage is fundamentally gendered, and that this is only visible when disaggregating fields of study. |
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Horowitz, Jonathan and Sagi Ramaj. "Educational Expansion, Field of Study, and Gender Inequalities in Skill Usage Across Four Cohort Studies." Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022. |