The Specificity of General Human Capital: Evidence from College Major Choice

By Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan. Journal of Labor Economics, 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection* (2016, unknown): “See also Altonji et al. (2014a), Arcidiacono et al. (2014), and Pavan and Kinsler (2012) on the importance of major-specific human capital.”
• Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers* (2020, background): “An important exception is Kinsler and Pavan (2015), who develop a structural model with major-specific human capital and show that science majors earn much higher wages in science jobs even after controlling for SAT scores, high school GPA, and worker fixed effects.”
• University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields: Evidence from California (2013, unknown): “Unlike in the previous section, in this exercise the characteristics of students are not equalized at all campuses but are fixed according to the campus the students actually attended.(26)”