ABSTRACT The purported “Golden Age” of American higher education, typically associated
with the two decades following World War II, was marked by increasingly generous federal …

We give an overview of the origins of the Cliometric revolution, its place within the larger
economic history discipline, and what we see as the future of cliometrics and economic …

This paper investigates why the US unemployment rate rose only a few percentage points
despite the dramatic decline in government spending and other upheaval at the end of …

In contemporary settings, greater earnings among women are typically associated with
reduced marriage rates and lower fertility. One way that women's earnings may increase is …

In this chapter, we interrogate issues of access and equity in US higher education by
reviewing a wide range of texts that take a historical or longitudinal view of issues related to …

Returns to Education for Women in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Evidence from Compulsory
Schooling Laws * Page 1 Returns to Education for Women in the Mid-Twentieth Century …

This participatory action research (PAR) dissertation study investigates the implementation
of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles by community college faculty in first-year …

Throughout the ages, female service members have faced various barriers to seeking
mental health treatment. This qualitative study addressed the problem of the effects of …

The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to describe the experiences
of women student veterans and the role of self-efficacy in their utilization of campus support …

This dissertation is a collection of three studies on topics in economic history and labor
economics, in the United States. In the first chapter, I investigate the relationship between …