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Human Capital in History : The American Record.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference ReportPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (426 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226163925
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human Capital in HistoryLOC classification:
  • HD4904.7
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo -- 1. Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective - Lawrence F. Katz and Robert A. Margo -- 2. Explaining Trends in High School Graduation: The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century - Nora Gordon, Comment: Sarah J. Reber -- 3. The Role of Immigrant Children in Their Parents' Assimilation in the United States, 1850-2010 - Ilyana Kuziemko and Joseph Ferrie -- 4. Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 - Hoyt Bleakley, Dora Costa, and Adriana Lleras-Muney -- 5. The Female Labor Force and Long-Run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective - Claudia Olivetti, Comment: Francine D. Blau -- 6. The Origin and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation - Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins -- 7. Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950-2010 - Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak -- 8. Is There a Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 US Fertility Decline - Martha J. Bailey, Melanie Guldi, and Brad J. Hershbein -- 9. A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings - Claudia Goldin, Comment: Cecilia Elena Rouse -- 10. The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs - Edward L. Glaeser and Yueran Ma -- 11. Claudia Goldin - Stanley L. Engerman -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo -- 1. Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective - Lawrence F. Katz and Robert A. Margo -- 2. Explaining Trends in High School Graduation: The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century - Nora Gordon, Comment: Sarah J. Reber -- 3. The Role of Immigrant Children in Their Parents' Assimilation in the United States, 1850-2010 - Ilyana Kuziemko and Joseph Ferrie -- 4. Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 - Hoyt Bleakley, Dora Costa, and Adriana Lleras-Muney -- 5. The Female Labor Force and Long-Run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective - Claudia Olivetti, Comment: Francine D. Blau -- 6. The Origin and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation - Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins -- 7. Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950-2010 - Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak -- 8. Is There a Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 US Fertility Decline - Martha J. Bailey, Melanie Guldi, and Brad J. Hershbein -- 9. A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings - Claudia Goldin, Comment: Cecilia Elena Rouse -- 10. The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs - Edward L. Glaeser and Yueran Ma -- 11. Claudia Goldin - Stanley L. Engerman -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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