Claudia Goldin, Harvard University (short bio)
"The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions" (with Lawrence F. Katz).

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially just after 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women began to soar around the same year. We explore the relationship between these two changes and the diffusion of the birth control pill (aka "the pill") among young, unmarried college graduate women.

Related writings by Claudia Goldin:

On The Pill: Changing the Course of Women's Education, appeared in the Milken Institute Review (PDF)

The Power of the Pill: Careers and College Women apeared in the Orlando Sentinel (PDF)

Fri, May 3rd
4pm, CDE

Scott Rozelle, UC Davis
Title TBA (on China)