How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We …

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 …

to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market … for graduates. The principal finding is that the longitudinal/cohort earnings profile for college graduates flattened … markedly relative to that for high school graduates in the 1970s. With smaller growth rates of earnings for the college …

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 …

We examine the initial post-college geographic location decisions of students from hometowns in the Appalachian region …

graduates continued to climb, reaching highs not seen since the early 1990s. In this paper, we take a closer look at the jobs … held by underemployed college graduates in the early stages of their careers during the first few years after the Great … Recession. Contrary to popular perception, we show that relatively few recent graduates were working in low-skilled service jobs …

to quantify the impact of for-profit college attendance on the employment and earnings of over one million students …. Using a matched comparison group difference-in-differences design, we find that certificate-seeking students in for … after attendance than students in public institutions. These results hold for both men and women and for seven of the top …

We estimate a model of high school students' college choices, allowing for rich heterogeneity in students' preferences … for college attributes. We use data on students' enrollment decisions and application decisions--i.e., the sets of … colleges to which they applied--to identify the distribution of students' preferences. We use our estimates to quantify …