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Title: Essays in Labor Economics
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1. Lee, Jin Young
Essays in Labor Economics
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, 2012
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97, Young Women
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Expectations/Intentions; Labor Force Participation

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This dissertation focuses on the interrelationship of socioeconomic outcomes of women...In the third chapter, I look at the role of teenage women's anticipated future labor force attachment in explaining the upward trend in U.S. women's college-going. Combined with the trend towards higher work expectations of young women across birth cohorts, the results suggest that teenagers' future work expectations may account in part for the upward trends in women's college attendance and completion.
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Lee, Jin Young. Essays in Labor Economics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, 2012.