...This chapter discusses young men's and women's college enrollment rates. It is expected that relative cohort size should exert a significant effect on college enrollments. The large cohorts face a declining college wage premium—the difference between a college wage and a high school wage...

... responsible for these shifts, and considers their implications. In doing so, the chapter sets a new direction for higher education research by documenting the gap between enrollment rates and completions and identifying the universe of possible explanations. The first section discusses the measurement...