Erik G Hurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 1470905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik G Hurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik G |
| FAMILY NAME | Hurst |
| SIGNATURE | HURST E G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erik G. Hurst is Frank P. and Marianne R. Diassi Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap
The paper assesses gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college-educated and highlights how those differences have evolved over time. Women choose majors with lower potential earnings (based on male wages associated with those majors) and subsequently sort into occupations with lower potential earnings given their major choice. These differences have narrowed over time, but recent cohorts of women still choose majors an…
College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap
The paper assesses gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college-educated and highlights how those differences have evolved over time. Women choose majors with lower potential earnings (based on male wages associated with those majors) and subsequently sort into occupations with lower potential earnings given their major choice. These differences have narrowed over time, but recent cohorts of women still choose majors an…
College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap
The paper assesses gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college-educated and highlights how those differences have evolved over time. Women choose majors with lower potential earnings (based on male wages associated with those majors) and subsequently sort into occupations with lower potential earnings given their major choice. These differences have narrowed over time, but recent cohorts of women still choose majors an…
Demographic economics (1 works) · Earnings (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Gender gap (1 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (1 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (1 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (1 works) · Labour economics (1 works) · Occupational segregation (1 works) · sort (1 works)