Are Some Degrees Worth More than Others? Evidence from College Admission Cutoffs in Chile

By Justine S. Hastings, Christopher Neilson, Seth D. Zimmerman. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design (2019, methodology): “2Non-lottery tie-breaking embedded in centralized assignment schemes has been used in econometric research on schools in Chile (Hastings et al., 2013; Zimmerman, 2019), Ghana (Ajayi, 2014), Italy (Fort et al., 2020), Kenya (Lucas and Mbiti, 2014), Norway (Kirkeboen et al., 2016), Romania…”
Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers* (2020, background): “Hastings, Neilson, and Zimmerman (2013) and Kirkeboen, Leuven, and Mogstad (2016) ﬁnd large effects of major choice on earnings after accounting for self-selection, although neither study explores the career dynamics of earnings gains from majoring in STEM ﬁelds.”
Beyond Truth-Telling: Preference Estimation with Centralized School Choice and College Admissions (2019, methodology): “Sources: [1] Abdulkadiroğlu, Angrist and Pathak (2014); [2] Pathak and Sönmez (2013); [3] Salonen (2014); [4] Ajayi (2017); [5] Hiller and Tercieux (2014); [6] Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013); [7] Teo, Sethuraman and Tan (2001); [8] Balinski and Sönmez (1999); [9] Akyol and Krishna (2017); [10] V”
Parents’ Beliefs about Their Children’s Academic Ability: Implications for Educational Investments (2019, unknown): “, Jensen, 2010), but in others people overestimate returns, at least for post-primary (Hastings et al., 2013; Pekkala Kerr et al., 2015).”
The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework (2019, background): “Recent work exploiting degree program admissions thresholds in international contexts shows that quantitative college majors have a positive impact on earnings (Hastings et al., 2013; Kirkeboen et al., 2016).”
Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection* (2016, unknown): “Examples can be found in observational studies that use IV to study workers’ selection of occupation, firms’ decision on location, or fami7See e.g. Hastings et al. (2013a), Betts (1996), Wiswall and Zafar (2014), and Reuben et al. (2013).”
Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility (2017, unknown): “(6)Several studies have estimated the returns to attending certain selective colleges using admissions cutoffs and other quasi-experimental or matching methods (e.g., Dale and Krueger 2002; Black and Smith 2004; Hoekstra 2009; Hastings et al. 2013; Zimmerman 2014; Hoxby 2015; Kirkeboen et al. 2016).”
Regression discontinuity design with many thresholds (2017, unknown): “For example, Hastings et al. (2013) study the assignment of students into different degree programs in universities in Chile.”
Access to 4-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion (2017, background): “…recent research exploiting Colombian and Chilean national systems of college admissions thresholds to estimate the impact of college quality and sector on a variety of labor market and other outcomes (Saavedra 2008; Hastings, Neilson, and Zimmerman 2013; Kaufmann, Messner, and Solis 2013).”
Shifting College Majors in Response to Advanced Placement Exam Scores (2017, unknown): “…lowest-paying majors is estimated to be several million dollars (Carnevale, Cheah, and Hanson 2015), and there is growing evidence that at least some portion of the connection between college major and wages is causal (Hastings, Neilson, and Zimmerman 2013; Kirkebøen, Leuven, and Mogstad, 2016).”
The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes (2017, unknown): “For related issues see Hastings et al. (2013) and Urzua (2013). and µc) and identifies Ecaes treatment effects, γ, through changes in returns across both programs and cohorts.”