Utilizing the National Educational Longitudinal Study data, this paper examines the role of pre-market cognitive and noncognitive ability, as measured in tenth grade, on the earnings of young men. In addition to the conditional mean, we estimate the impact over the earnings distribution using...

This paper investigates the role of psychosocial traits in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and male-dominated occupations are both related to the extent to which individuals have “masculine”...