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Gainfully Employed? Assessing the Employment and Earnings of For-Profit College Students Using Administrative Data
Cellini, Stephanie Riegg - 2016
We draw on population-level administrative data from the U.S. Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service 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...
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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
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Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported
Kane, Thomas J.; Rouse, Cecilia E.; Staiger, Douglas - 2021
-reported schooling using differences in wages, test scores, and other covariates to discern the relative verity of each measure. We also …
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Explaining Rising Income and Wage Inequality Among the College Educated
Hoxby, Caroline M.; Long, Bridget - 2021
The incomes and wages of college-educated Americans have become significantly more dispersed since 1970. This paper …
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Is it All Worth it? The Experiences of New Phds on the Job Market, 2007-2010
Helppie-McFall, Brooke; Murray-Close, Marta; Willis, … - 2021
This paper describes the job market experiences of new PhD economists, 2007-10. Using information from PhD programs' job candidate websites and original surveys, the authors present information about job candidates' characteristics, preferences and expectations; how job candidates fared at each...
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Technological Change and Wages : An Inter-Industry Analysis
Bartel, Ann P.; Sicherman, Nachum - 2021
Previous research has found evidence that wages in industries characterized as high tech,' or subject to higher rates … positive relationships between technological change and wages, and between technological change and the education premium. We …
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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions
Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; Todd, Petra - 2021
The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support for it using data from Decennial Censuses and Current Population Surveys. While data from 1940 and...
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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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Career Patterns of College Graduates in a Declining Job Market
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
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 …
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Are Lots of College Graduates Taking High School Jobs? A Reconsiderationof the Evidence
Tyler, John H.; Murnane, Richard J.; Levy, Frank S. - 2021
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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