Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,729
Cover Image
The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
degrees with high average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with low average earnings. Second, we decompose … the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings gains come from … degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334324
Cover Image
The Quality of Lower-Track Education : Evidence from Britain
Clark, Damon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
to zero impact on a range of labor market outcomes including earnings. Third, I show that lower-track schools featured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334393
Cover Image
Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT scores that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528336
Cover Image
Fund Flows and Income Risk of Fund Managers
Cen, Xiao; Dou, Winston Wei; Kogan, Leonid; Wu, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Investment fund managers make asset allocation decisions on behalf of a significant segment of US households. To elucidate the incentives they operate under, as well as the income and career risks they face, we construct a unique and novel dataset, which encompasses detailed information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447307
Cover Image
Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties : Evidence from the Biomedical PhD Labor Market
Diethorn, Holden A.; Marschke, Gerald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use the labor market for doctorates in the biomedical sciences, where career dislocation is common, as a case study of skill-task mismatch and its consequences. Using longitudinal, worker-level data on biomedical doctorates, we investigate mismatch as an explanation for the negative pecuniary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226116
Cover Image
Interdependent Values in Matching Markets : Evidence from Medical School Programs in Denmark
Friedrich, Benjamin; Hackmann, Martin B.; Kapor, Adam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper presents the first empirical evidence of interdependent values and strategic responses by market participants in a two-sided matching market. We consider the market for medical school programs in Denmark, which uses a centralized assignment mechanism. Leveraging unique administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528365
Cover Image
Women's Colleges and Economics Major Choice : Evidence from Wellesley College Applicants
Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals, but because who is in a field may shape what is studied by it. If increasing the rate of majoring in mathematically-intensive fields among women is a worthy goal, then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250162
Cover Image
Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia
Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334396
Cover Image
Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from an Information Intervention with College Students
Cortés, Patricia; French, Jacob; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
randomized information experiment on the 2018 to 2020 graduating cohorts of undergraduate business majors from Boston University … negotiation among their peers along with the earnings changes conditional on negotiating. We find sizable immediate effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486245
Cover Image
Do Double Majors Face Less Risk? : An Analysis of Human Capital Diversification
Hanks, Andrew S.; Jiang, Shengjun; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor … market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468295