主题：Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers
主讲人：钟灵 长江商学院
主持人：蒋璇 暨南大学
时间：2025年10月9日（周四）上午10:00
地点：暨南大学石牌校区经济学院大楼（中惠楼）305室
摘要
This paper studies the gender gap among full time college educated workers born between 1931 and 1984. Using rich data from the National Survey of College Graduates and other sources on college graduates and their labor market outcomes, we decompose trends in the gender earnings gap across birth cohorts into trends due to differences in the relative returns to undergraduate and graduate degree field combinations, trends in gender differences in undergraduate field, graduate degree attainment, and graduate field, and trends in a cohort and gender specific residual component that shifts the gender gap in earnings by the same amount for all college graduates. We have three main sets of findings. First, we find that much of the large gap in earnings between the 1931 and 1950 cohorts is due to the residual component. Most of the decline is within occupation, especially for the early cohorts. The residual gap varies little from 1951 to the late 70s, after which it resumes its decline. Second, we find that gender differences in the relative return to undergraduate and graduate degree combinations matter for the gender gap, but contribute very little to the decline in the gender gap over the full time period. Third, we study and further decompose the education gap--the contribution of college major choice, graduate degree attainment and graduate field to the gap. When evaluated at fixed relative returns to each degree type, the education gap declines substantially and is an important part of the narrowing of the gender gap. But this decline is largely offset by cohort trends in the relative returns to specific fields that worked in favor of men against women. Overall, the education gap varies in a narrow range around 0.2 and accounts for very little of the decline.
主讲人简介
钟灵，长江商学院经济学助理教授，博士毕业于耶鲁大学经济学。研究领域包括劳动经济学、教育经济学、公共经济学及中国经济。她主要关注高等教育人才的职业选择与收入分布、中国流动人口的社会影响、及中国司法裁判的平等问题。在Journal of Labor Economics，Labour Economics，Research in Labor Economics等国际学术期刊上发表过研究成果。
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校对|蒋璇
责编| 彭毅
初审| 李仲达
终审发布| 何凌云
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