Determinants of the Gender Gap in Annual Earnings among College Graduates

Tertiary education compensates male and female students more than it financially rewards students who complete only secondary education. These benefits, however, do not apply equally to male and female students. Researchers in the United States have found that the earnings of male college graduates almost always surpass the earnings of female college graduates, a finding that extends to other countries as well. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.