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Leadership experiences, labor market entry, and early career trajectories

Lundin, Martin; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Zetterberg, Pär - 2016

We study how leadership experiences before labor market entry affect subsequent labor market performance, using a regression discontinuity design to isolate the causal effects. The design is applied to elections of representatives at Swedish student union (SU) councils. Archive data on winning...

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Analyzing wage differentials by fields of study: Evidence from Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2017

This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...

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Same-sex role model effects in education

de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023

. These results are consistent with role models inspiring students to overcome gender stereotypes and pursue a STEM career …

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The returns to college choice: Loans, scholarships and labor outcomes

Montoya, Ana Maria; Noton Norambuena, Carlos; Solis, Alex - 2018

To estimate causal effects of college choice, we exploit eligibility rules for student loans in a regression discontinuity design. Loan programs induce students to pursue college degrees that are more expensive and prolonged relative to technical education. Although higher education is...

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The Health Returns of University Eligibility

Heckley, Gawain; Nordin, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2020

This paper exploits an arbitrary university eligibility rule in Sweden combined with regression discontinuity to estimate the impact of university education on health derived demand for medical care. We find a clear jump in university attendance due to university eligibility of between 10 and 14...

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Finance and the Reallocation of Scientific, Engineering and Mathematical Talent

Marin, Giovanni; Vona, Francesco - 2022

The US financial sector has become a magnet for the brightest graduates in the science, technology, engineering and … mathematical fields (STEM). We provide quantitative bases for this anecdotal fact for the US, over the period 1980-2019 and with a …-run educational upgrading of finance was biased towards STEM graduates, especially for postgraduates, and accelerated in the last …

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Earnings expectations and educational sorting: An ex-ante perspective on returns to university education

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Mikael; … - 2022

We estimate means and distributions of ex-ante treatment effects for obtaining university education relative to high school. To achieve this, we conducted a survey which elicited earnings expectations associated with counterfactual educational choices for a sample of highschool students in...

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Imperfect signals

Graetz, Georg - 2023

A pre-condition for employer learning is that signals at labor market entry do not fully reveal graduates' productivity. I model various distinct sources of signal imperfection - such as noise and multi-dimensional types - and characterize their implications for the private return to skill...

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Maternal education and early child development: The roles of parental support for learning, learning materials, and father characteristics

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Aydemir, … - 2023

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of maternal education on the development outcomes of 24- to 59-month-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education reform in Turkey, which extended the duration...

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Will automation and robotics lead to more inequality?

Brezis, Elise S.; Rubin, Amir - 2023

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing automation, robotics, and hightech, which differs from the canonical model of technological progress by incorporating the higher education system. The main difference is that there is not just one type of skilled workers, but two types, and there...

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