Publications by authors named "Brad Hershbein"
Article Synopsis
- Research on the US gender wage gap has identified correlations but lacks understanding of why women's career paths shifted in the 1960s and 1970s.
- This paper examines how access to "the Pill" influenced women's human capital investments and their effect on lifelong wages.
- Findings indicate that earlier access to the Pill led to an 8% increase in hourly wages by age 50 and contributed significantly to reducing the gender wage gap in the 1980s and 1990s.
Graduating High School in a Recession: Work, Education, and Home Production.
B E J Econom Anal Policy
January 2012
This paper explores how high school graduate men and women vary in their behavioral responses to beginning labor market entry during a recession. In contrast with previous related literature that found a substantial negative wage impact but minimal employment impact in samples of highly educated men, the empirical evidence presented here suggests a different outcome for the less well educated, and between the sexes. Women, but not men, who graduate high school in an adverse labor market are less likely to be in the workforce for the next four years, but longer-term effects are minimal.
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