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Labor market effects of high school science majors in a high STEM economy
Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2018
This paper explores the association between studying science at the higher secondary stage and labor market earnings … using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results … show that those who studied science in high school have 22% greater earnings than those who studied business and humanities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947723
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Labor market effects of high school science majors in a high STEM economy
Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2018
This paper explores the association between studying science at the higher secondary stage and labor market earnings … using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results … show that those who studied science in high school have 22% greater earnings than those who studied business and humanities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937766
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Science education and labor market outcomes in a developing economy
Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; … - In: Economic inquiry 60 (2022) 2, pp. 741-763
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168188
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Using genes to explore the effects of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes
Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2021
A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational attainment and professional achievement. Isolating the causal effects of these traits on career outcomes is complicated by reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650131
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Using genes to explore the effects of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes
Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023 - Revision: February 2023
A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational attainment and professional achievement. Isolating the causal effects of these traits on career outcomes is made difficult by reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014245859
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Using genes to explore the relationship of cognitive and non-cognitive skills with education and labor market outcomes
Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023
A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational attainment and professional achievement. Isolating the causal effects of these traits on career outcomes is made difficult by reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278024
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440268
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Does a Bachelor's degree pay off? : labor market outcomes of academic versus vocational education after Bologna
Neugebauer, Martin; Weiss, Felix - 2017
Academic education is generally rewarded by employers, but what happens to graduates if they are trained for two years less and have to compete with vocationally trained labor market entrants in a similar field of study? Focusing on Germany, we analyze labor market entries of individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636693
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How Does For-Profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?
Armona, Luis - 2019
For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889756
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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194172