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Changes Across Cohorts in Wage Returns to Schooling and Early Work Experiences

Ashworth, Jared - 2018

This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences, and how these returns have changed over the past twenty years. Using the NLSY surveys, we develop and estimate a dynamic model of the joint schooling and work decisions that young men make in early...

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Selective Migration, Occupational Choice, and the Wage Returns to College Majors

Ransom, Tyler - 2020

I examine the extent to which the returns to college majors are influenced by selective migration and occupational choice across locations in the US. To quantify the role of selection, I develop and estimate an extended Roy model of migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon...

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Has the College Wage Premium Continued to Rise? Evidence from Multiple U.S. Surveys

Ashworth, Jared - 2018

This paper examines trends in the college wage premium (CWP) by birth cohort across the five major household surveys in the United States: the Census/ACS, CPS, NLSY, PSID, and SIPP. We document a flattening in the CWP for birth cohorts 1978 and onward in each survey and even a decline for birth...

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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019

The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …, legacies, those on the dean's interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs). Among white admits, over 43% are ALDC …-ALDCs. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the …

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Divergent : The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019

Applications to elite US colleges have more than doubled over the past 20 years, with little change in the number of available seats. We examine how this increased competition has affected the admissions advantage that legacies and athletes (LA) receive. Using data on Harvard applications over...

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