e who are not. Over the past 25 years, school enrollment rates for young people, measured in October of each year, have slowly and steadily increased. More striking than the increase in the October school enrollment rate was an even greater increase in the July school enrollment rate. The "summer school" enrollment rate more than tripled from 1985 to 2003. Young people, often faulted for short-sightedness, may have been rationally obtaining more education so as to maximize their lifetime earnings. The gap in earnings between the less-educated and the more-educated has increased in recent decades."
This same report also noted that between 1979 and 2000 there was a decline in the employment rate for male teenagers and young adults who were not in school. During and across this period, the rate for female teenagers and young adults not enrolled in school was unchanged or increased only slightly. Underlying the decrease in these employment rates for males were "
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