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How does for-profit college attendance affect student loans, defaults and labor market outcomes?

Armona, Luis; Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 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...

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Underemployment in the early careers of college graduates following the Great Recession

Abel, Jaison R.; Deitz, Richard - 2015

Though labor market conditions steadily improved following the Great Recession, underemployment among recent college 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...

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Like father, like daughter (unless there is a son) : sibling sex composition and women's STEM major choice in college

Oguzoglu, Umut; Ozbeklik, Serkan - 2016

We investigate the potential role of fathers in females' decision to choose a science, technology, engineering and … mathematics (STEM) major in college. The main innovation of our paper is to analyze how sibling sex composition affects the … probability of being a STEM major in college for females whose fathers are in a STEM occupation. Using the National Longitudinal …

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Choice of majors : are women really different from men?

Kugler, Adriana D.; Tinsley, Catherine H.; Ukhaneva, Olga - 2017

are affected by external cues that signal STEM fields as masculine. The results show that high school academic preparation … likely to switch out of male-dominated STEM majors in response to poor performance compared to men. Therefore, we find that …

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Integrating Minorities in the Classroom : The Role of Students, Parents, and Teachers

Gendre, Alexandra de; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salamanca, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to...

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The Returns to College Major Choice : Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability

Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

There is a growing body of research examining the labor market returns to college major, motivated by the large returns to skill in the labor market. Prior research has focused almost exclusively on mean effects and has paid little attention to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using...

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Financial aid, debt management, and socioeconomic outcomes : post-college effects of merit-based aid

Scott-Clayton, Judith E.; Zafar, Basit - 2016

Prior research has demonstrated that financial aid can influence both college enrollments and completions, but less is known about its post-college consequences. Even for students whose attainment is unaffected, financial aid may affect post-college outcomes via reductions in both time to degree...

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Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : An Analysis by Gender

Fraumeni, Barbara - 2019

This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and analysis of trends in human capital by gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in...

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Overeducation in the U.S. During the Great Recession

Koppera, Vedant - 2016

I use the method introduced by Gottschalk and Hansen (2003) to analyze the rate of overeducation among workers with exactly a college degree between 2006 and 2013. To my knowledge, this is the first study to use this method to analyze trends in overeducation during the great recession in the...

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Long-Term COVID-19 Impacts and the U.S. Workforce of 2029

Shutters, Shade T. - 2021

-related degrees to computer and STEM degrees. We further find that the socialness of labor, which is important for both innovation and …

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