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Emancipation through Education

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  • Michelle Rendall

    (University of Oslo)

  • Fatih Guvenen

    (University of Minnesota)

Abstract
This paper studies the role of education in women's changing role in the labor and marriage markets since the 1960's.

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  • Michelle Rendall & Fatih Guvenen, 2009. "Emancipation through Education," 2009 Meeting Papers 70, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed009:70
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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure

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