College Attainment of Women |
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| Authors: | Jos-Víctor Ríos-Rull Virginia Snchez-Marcos |
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| Institution: | a Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104;b NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA, 02138;c CEPR, 90-98 Goswell Road, London, EC1V7RR, UK;d CAERP, Pérez de Rozas 4, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38004, Spain;e Universidad de Cantabria, Av. Los Castros s/n, 39005, Santander, Spain;f Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, C/Madrid 126, 28903-Getafe, (Madrid), Spain |
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| Abstract: | Up to the late 1970's the Sex College Attainment Ratio (SCAR), or ratio of college attainment between men and women, was about 1.6. Assortative mating within education groups in marriages is strong enough in the United States to prevent accounting for the SCAR feature based on males' higher earnings. We document the puzzling nature of the SCAR, and we explore various theories to account for it. Our main finding is that if parents' well-being is affected by the number of grandchildren, gender differences in the steepness of the negative relation between educational attainment and number of children provides the best theory to understand the SCAR. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: J12, J16, I20. |
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