Friday, April 2 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Hampton

Session 68:
Determinants and Consequences of Educational Attainment

Chair: Ross M. Stolzenberg, University of Chicago
Discussant: Vida Maralani, University of California, Los Angeles

  1. Gender-Specific Trends in the Value of Education and the Emerging Gender Gap in College CompletionThomas DiPrete, Duke University ; Claudia Buchmann, Duke University

  2. Why Are Some Academic Fields Tipping towards Female?Paula S. England, Northwestern University ; Paul Allison, University of Pennsylvania ; Su Li, Northwestern University ; Michelle Budig, University of Massachusetts

  3. First Marriage and First Birth Patterns by Educational Attainment in the Transiting Societies, the Netherlands, Japan and Southern IndiaHideko Matsuo, Université Catholique de Louvain ; Sarbani Banerjee, University of Groningen ; Inge Hutter, University of Groningen

  4. The Dynamics of School and Work in Rural BangladeshJose J. Canals-Cerda, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Cristobal Ridao-Cano, World Bank Group

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