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Title: Non-college Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment
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Chuan, Amanda Zhang, Weilong |
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Non-college Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment IZA Discussion Paper No. 16089, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), April 2023. Also: https://docs.iza.org/dp16089.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); College Enrollment; Gender Differences; Geocoded Data; Occupations Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women overtook men in college-going. Using instrumental variation from routinization, we show that the decline of routine-intensive occupations displaced the non-college occupations of women, raising female enrollment. Embedding this instrumental variation into a dynamic Roy model, we find that routinization decreased returns to the non-college occupations of women, increasing their college premium. In contrast, men's non-college occupations were less susceptible to routinization. Our model estimates that workplace routinization accounted for 44% of the growth in female enrollment during 1980-2000. |
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Chuan, Amanda and Weilong Zhang. "Non-college Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment." IZA Discussion Paper No. 16089, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), April 2023. |