Table 4.

Differences in Skill Utilization by Education Level: 8 percent versus 40 percent College-Educated in Cohorts

	Verbal Skill Utilization		Quantitative Skill Utilization		Analytic Skill Utilization
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Decline in Skill Utilization of Four-Year Degree from 8% to 40%	−.32	−.22	−.22	.00	−.45	−.31
Decline in the Advantage of Four-Year Degree vs. No College Degree Going from 8% to 40%	−.53	−.46	−.38	−.12	−.66	−.57
Interpretation of Skill Differences:	0 to .2: not a substantively meaningful difference .2 to .4: noticeable/moderate substantive difference .4 to 1.0: large substantive difference Above 1: very large substantive difference

Source: Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey: 1971 to 2010 (Flood et al. 2015).

Note: Findings are net of age (linear, squared, cubed), cohort (five-year dummy variables), year, marital status (married, never married, separated/widowed/divorced), race (white, black, Hispanic, other), metro area (central city, outside central city, not in metro area, not identifiable), census division, and interactions by race–cohort, marital status–cohort, census division–education, and census division–year.