Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap

The opportunity cost for men of pursuing a college degree has been rising due to the increase in the rewards to becoming a superstar in occupations typically dominated by men, like professional sports. This suggests a novel explanation for the evolution of the college gender gap (which shows a clear...

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Main Authors:	Rossi, Martin A., Ruzzier, Christian A.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	GENDER GAP SUPERSTARS PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TERTIARY EDUCATION ENROLLMENT EDUCATION
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32779

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spelling	okr-10986-327792021-05-25T10:54:37Z Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap Rossi, Martin A. Ruzzier, Christian A. GENDER GAP SUPERSTARS PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TERTIARY EDUCATION ENROLLMENT EDUCATION TERTIARY EDUCATION The opportunity cost for men of pursuing a college degree has been rising due to the increase in the rewards to becoming a superstar in occupations typically dominated by men, like professional sports. This suggests a novel explanation for the evolution of the college gender gap (which shows a clear upward trend in female college enrollments relative to male enrollments). Causal evidence from a natural experiment in European soccer markets—that provides exogenous variation in the expected earnings for men associated with a superstar path—supports this explanation: an increase in male earnings has a significant positive effect on the ratio of female to male tertiary enrollment in college education. Results are robust to using different samples of countries, to allowing for regional time trends, to analyzing lagged effects, to changing the definition of the treatment, and to exploiting alternative definitions of exposure. 2019-12-04T22:02:58Z 2019-12-04T22:02:58Z 2018-06 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32779 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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topic	GENDER GAP SUPERSTARS PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TERTIARY EDUCATION ENROLLMENT EDUCATION TERTIARY EDUCATION
spellingShingle	GENDER GAP SUPERSTARS PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TERTIARY EDUCATION ENROLLMENT EDUCATION TERTIARY EDUCATION Rossi, Martin A. Ruzzier, Christian A. Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap
description	The opportunity cost for men of pursuing a college degree has been rising due to the increase in the rewards to becoming a superstar in occupations typically dominated by men, like professional sports. This suggests a novel explanation for the evolution of the college gender gap (which shows a clear upward trend in female college enrollments relative to male enrollments). Causal evidence from a natural experiment in European soccer markets—that provides exogenous variation in the expected earnings for men associated with a superstar path—supports this explanation: an increase in male earnings has a significant positive effect on the ratio of female to male tertiary enrollment in college education. Results are robust to using different samples of countries, to allowing for regional time trends, to analyzing lagged effects, to changing the definition of the treatment, and to exploiting alternative definitions of exposure.
format	Journal Article
author	Rossi, Martin A. Ruzzier, Christian A.
author_facet	Rossi, Martin A. Ruzzier, Christian A.
author_sort	Rossi, Martin A.
title	Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap
title_short	Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap
title_full	Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap
title_fullStr	Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap
title_full_unstemmed	Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap
title_sort	career choices and the evolution of the college gender gap
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2019
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32779
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Career Choices and the Evolution of the College Gender Gap

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