Data and Code: NON-COLLEGE OCCUPATIONS, WORKPLACE ROUTINIZATION, AND FEMALE COLLEGE ENROLLMENT
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Amanda Chuan, Michigan State University; Weilong Zhang, University of Cambridge
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Project Citation:
Chuan, Amanda, and Zhang, Weilong. Data and Code: NON-COLLEGE OCCUPATIONS, WORKPLACE ROUTINIZATION, AND FEMALE COLLEGE ENROLLMENT. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-04-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E226581V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We evaluate the impact of routinization from 1960 to 2000 on college enrollment. Among non-college workers, routine occupations employed a substantial share of the female workforce, but this share plummeted from 1970 on. Using shift-share instruments, we show that routinization displaced women’s non-college occupations, raising female enrollment. Men’s non-college occupations were less vulnerable, leaving their enrollment rates largely unaffected. Embedding this instrumental variation into a Roy model explains the mechanisms. Gender differences in skill create a comparative advantage in manual work for non-college men, leaving women to sort into routine jobs, which were more vulnerable to routinization.
Scope of Project
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1960 – 2000
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