Gender-specific trends in the value of education and the emerging gender gap in college completion

Demography

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-24

  DiPrete, Thomas A ^a   Buchmann, Claudia ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33646780210     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2006.0003     Document Type: Article

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