Agricultural graduate earnings: The impacts of college, career, and gender

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 785-800

  Barkley, Andrew P ^a   Stock, Wendy A ^a   Sylvius, Cynthia K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

College of agriculture; Determinants of earnings; Gender earnings gap; Labor markets; Oaxaca decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000333940     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244324     Document Type: Article

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