Similarly, partly reflecting rising demand for college-educated labor in the 1950s and 1960s, the percentage of 18 to 24 year olds enrolled in college rose from about 14 percent in 1950 to roughly 25 percent in 1970.44 After stagnating in the 1970s and 1980s, college enrollment rates among youths began to rise again in the 1990s, reflecting a further widening in the skill premium for workers with a college degree.
34 See Ganong and Shoag (2017) and Herkenhoff, Ohanian, and Prescott (2017). 33  - 14 wealth holdings by demographic groups.