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Title: College, Employment, and Marriage Decisions of Young Women
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Ge, Suqin |
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College, Employment, and Marriage Decisions of Young Women Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2006. DAI-A 67/08, Feb 2007 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Labor Economics; Marriage; Women; Women's Studies Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This thesis investigates the sequential college attendance, labor supply, and marital status decisions of high school females. Two main questions are asked: (1) how large is the impact of marriage on women's college choice? (2) how can the returns to schooling defined by schooling coefficient in earnings equation be consistently estimated? A dynamic choice model of school attendance, labor supply, and marriage is formulated and structurally estimated using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). Marriage is found to have as large an effect on college choice as earnings. The college graduation rate would drop from 38% to 32% if the benefits from marriage were not taken into account. Simulated data from the estimated structural model are used to study the discrepancy between OLS and IV estimates of the returns to schooling. Despite being highly restrictive, the structural approach seems to have advantages in estimating the returns to schooling. As an out of sample validation of the model, the estimated model is used to predict the college enrollment behavior of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) sample. The model can account for 75% of the dramatic increase in college enrollment between the early 1980's and the early 2000's. |
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Ge, Suqin. College, Employment, and Marriage Decisions of Young Women. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2006. DAI-A 67/08, Feb 2007. |