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Direct linkJacob, Marita – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
In a recent paper on gender inequality in higher education Buchman and DiPrete (2006) assume that the decrease in the gender gap in college completion in the US can partly be explained by changes in the allocation of familial resources in favour of women. However, they do not test this hypothesis empirically. In this paper I examine the effects of…
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