Post-Baccalaureate Wage Growth within Four Years of Graduation: The Effects of College Quality and College Major

By S. Thomas, Liang Zhang. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Xiang Zhou
2. Tania G. Levey
3. Eric Grodsky
4. Yu Xie
5. Josipa Roksa
6. Amy Liu
7. Jennie E. Brand
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In Education

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2. Tania G. Levey
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4. Yu Xie
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7. Jennie E. Brand
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Citations in the corpus

• Social Stratification in Higher Education (2009, background): “In general, expected earnings for baccalaureate recipients seem to vary widely by major (Rumberger & Thomas, 1993; Thomas & Zhang, 2005; Wolniak, Seifert, Reed, & Pascarella, 2008); students majoring in engineering, the physical sciences, and, more recently, health tend to earn the most in their…”
• Unraveling the myth of meritocracy within the context of US higher education (2011, background): “Studies show that college quality and college major can impact the level of earnings as well as the pursuit of graduate education (Eide et al. 1998; Monks 2000; Thomas and Zhang 2005; Wolniak et al. 2008; Zhang 2005a,b).”
• Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education (2010, background): “Since field of study affects earnings (Thomas and Zhang 2005), we examine stratum-specific college majors for collegeeducated men in the WLS. Table 6 shows that while low propensity students are more likely to concentrate in business and education—majors that yield immediate economic return—high…”
• Learning environment, learning process, academic outcomes and career success of university graduates (2008, unknown): “2005 ; Rumberger and Thomas 1993 ; Thomas 2000 ; Thomas and Zhang 2005 ).”
• What Can You Do with That Degree?: College Major and Occupational Status of College Graduates over Time (2010, background): “College major represents one prominent dimension of horizontal stratification, and ample research has documented divergent labor market returns across different fields of study (e.g., Fuller and Schoenberger 1991; Grogger and Eide 1995; Roksa 2005; Rumberger and Thomas 1993; Thomas and Zhang 2005).”
• Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the “Meritocratic Power” of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility (2019, background): “…marriage markets (Brand and Halaby 2006; Brewer, Eide, and Ehrenberg 1999; Dale and Krueger 2002; Loury and Garman 1995; Monks 2000; Thomas 2003; Thomas and Zhang 2005; for a review, see Gerber and Cheung 2008), horizontal stratification within the postsecondary system has likely contributed to…”