Human Capital in History: The American Record
Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo, editors
Conference held December 7-8, 2012
Published in October 2014 by University of Chicago Press
© 2014 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER Program(s):DAE, LS
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406 pages
ISBN: 0-226-16389-X
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Front matter, table of contents, acknowledgements:
Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, Robert A. Margo
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Introduction:
Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, Robert A. Margo
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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective:
Lawrence F. Katz, Robert A. Margo
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Explaining Trends in High School Graduation: The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century:
Nora Gordon
(p. 59 - 89)
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Comment:
Sarah J. Reber
(p. 89 - 95)
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The Role of Immigrant Children in Their Parents' Assimilation in the United States, 1850–2010:
Ilyana Kuziemko, Joseph Ferrie
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Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000:
Hoyt Bleakley, Dora Costa, Adriana Lleras-Muney
(p. 121 - 159)
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The Female Labor Force and Long-Run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective:
Claudia Olivetti
(p. 161 - 197)
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Comment:
Francine D. Blau
(p. 198 - 203)
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The Origin and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation:
Leah Platt Boustan, William J. Collins
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950–2010:
Shelly Lundberg, Robert A. Pollak
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Is There a Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline:
Martha J. Bailey, Melanie Guldi, Brad J. Hershbein
(p. 273 - 312)
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A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings:
Claudia Goldin
(p. 313 - 348)
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Comment:
Cecilia Elena Rouse
(p. 349 - 353)
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The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs:
Edward L. Glaeser, Yueran Ma
(p. 355 - 389)
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Claudia Goldin:
Stanley L. Engerman
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Indexes:
Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, Robert A. Margo
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