期刊名称：Economics Discussion Papers / Department of Economics, College of Management and Economics, University of Guelph
出版年度：2006
卷号：2006
出版社：University of Guelph
摘要：Data from the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics indicate
that more females than males have been attending Canadian universities over the past decade. This
gender imbalance in the attendance rates of females and males increased substantially during the 1990s.
Various decompositions are applied, using linear and nonlinear regression techniques, to investigate the
factors that explain this imbalance. It is found that the higher university premium for females and its
increase relative to that for males explains a large part of the imbalance in the university attendance
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