College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method that links a census of U.S. degrees and fields of study with measures of the knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage...

College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method that links a census of U.S. degrees and fields of study with measures of the knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage...

College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method that links a census of U.S. degrees and fields of study with measures of the knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage...

College students select majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method linking a census of US degrees and fields of study with measures of the knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and...

This study estimates earnings function parameters across alternative occupational paths, with an emphasis on identifying rates of return to school and post-school human capital investment. Based on cross-sectional and synthetic cohort analysis using the 1973-2000 Current Population Surveys,...

This study estimates earnings function parameters across alternative occupational paths, with an emphasis on identifying rates of return to school and post-school human capital investment. Based on cross-sectional and synthetic cohort analysis using the 1973-2000 Current Population Surveys,...