Essays on the Gender Gap and the Effects of Secondary School Expansion: Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century's High School Movement
High schools in the South in the early 20th century served as both an important white collar employer of women as well as a means of transmitting human capital to their students. I use a newly constructed dataset of high schools and high school teachers in Tennessee from 1923 â 1935 to analyze the g...
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VANDERBILT
2016
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07182016-120224/ |