Author Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor 15
6. 2. Explaining Trends in High School Graduation The Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy Landscape and Income Inequality over the Last Half Century 59
7. 3. The Role of Immigrant Children in Their Parents’ Assimilation in the United States, 1850– 2010 97
8. 4. Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820– 2000 121
9. 5. The Female Labor Force and Long- Run Development 161
10. 6. The Origin and Persistence of Black- White DiVerences in Women’s Labor Force Participation 205
11. 7. Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the United States, 1950– 2010 241
12. 8. Is There a Case for a “Second Demographic Transition”? 273
13. 9. A Pollution Theory of Discrimination 313
14. 10. The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs 355
15. 11. Claudia Goldin 391
16. Contributors 395
17. Author Index 397
18. Subject Index 403