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Skills, Majors, and Jobs : Does Higher Education Respond?
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We quantify the magnitude and nature of response in the 4-year sector using a new measure of labor demand at the institution-major level that combines online job ads with geographic...
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Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of workers followed through age 60, I show that growth in the college wage premium is primarily explained by occupational sorting. Shortly after graduating, workers...
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Are Lots of College Graduates Taking High School Jobs? A Reconsiderationof the Evidence
Tyler, John - 1995
college graduates or for older (45-54 year old) female college graduates. For all these groups, real earnings increased during … the 1980s and the percentage in 'high school jobs' declined. The assertion is valid only for older male college graduates …. Young college graduates improved their labor market position during the 1980s by increasingly obtaining degrees in …
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Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates
Kennan, John - 2015
are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are … decisions of college graduates. The model is estimated using NLSY data, and used to quantify the sensitivity of migration and …
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Teaching, Teachers Pensions and Retirement across Recent Cohorts of College Graduate Women
Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2016
Labor force participation rates of college-educated women ages 60 to 64 increased by 20 percent (10 percentage points) between 2000 and 2010. One potential explanation for this change stems from the fact that fewer college-educated women in the more recent cohorts were ever teachers. This...
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Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...
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The Role of Non-Pecuniary Considerations : Location Decisions of College Graduates from Low Income Backgrounds
Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the initial post-college geographic location decisions of students from hometowns in the Appalachian region that often lack substantial high-skilled job opportunities, focusing on the role of non-pecuniary considerations. Novel survey questions in the spirit of the contingent...
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Time Use, College Attainment, and The Working-from-Home Revolution
Cowan, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
increased by over 90 minutes for college graduates; for non-graduates, it was 17 minutes. The share of work done at home (for … those who worked at all) increased by 21% for graduates and 6% for non-graduates. Average minutes worked changed little for … either group. Daily time spent traveling (e.g., commuting) fell by 24 minutes for college graduates but did not change for …
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Grads on the Go : Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended … average strength of the labor market to which a college sends its graduates predicts college-specific intergenerational … of considering migration patterns of college graduates when estimating the social return on public investment in higher …
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First Foot Forward : A Two-Step Econometric Method for Parsing and Estimating the Impacts of Multiple Identities
Hanks, Andrew S.; Kniffin, Kevin M.; Qian, Xuechao; Wang, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
findings for interdisciplinarians point to the primary identity holding predominant importance for doctoral graduates in the …
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