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 and occupations with lower potential earnings. Differences in undergraduate major choice explain a substantive portion of gender wage gaps for the college-educated above and beyond simply controlling for occupation. Collectively, our results highlight the importance of understanding gender differences in the mapping between college major and occupational sorting when studying the evolution of gender differences in labor market outcomes over time.

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大学专业、职业和性别工资差距

该论文评估了受过大学教育的劳动力市场专业化的性别差异，并强调了这些差异如何随着时间的推移而演变。女性选择潜在收入较低的专业（基于与这些专业相关的男性工资），然后根据她们的主要选择进入潜在收入较低的职业。这些差异随着时间的推移而缩小，但最近的女性群体仍然选择潜在收入较低的专业和职业。本科专业选择的差异解释了受过大学教育的性别工资差距的很大一部分，而不仅仅是控制职业。集体，