Heterogeneity in Human Capital Investments: High School Curriculum, College Major, and Careers. NBER Working Paper No. 17985.

By Joseph G. Altonji, Erica Blom, C. Meghir. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Ever Failed, Try Again, Succeed Better: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention on Grit* (2019, positive): “16The latter result comes from Sample 2, where we can estimate the effect of the pure grit treatment on patience measured by a convex time budget task adapted from Andreoni and Sprenger (2012) and used in Alan and Ertac (2018).”
Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection* (2016, positive): “…a policy that increases the number of graduates in STEM fields will be large or small, positive or negative.3 Our paper is primarily related to a small but growing literature on the payoffs to different types of post-secondary education, reviewed in Deming et al. (2012) and Altonji et al. (2012).”
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility (2019, positive): “(9)The 2-year versus 4-year comparison also contributes to the college quality literature; see Hoxby (2009) for a review and Andrews et al. (2016) for a recent contribution using the same administrative data source as this paper.”
University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in Stem Fields: Evidence from California (2013, neutral): “The lack of STEM majors occurs despite STEM majors earning substantially more than other college degrees with the exception of perhaps business (Arcidiacono 2004, Kinsler and Pavan 2012, Melguizo and Wolniak 2012) and that the STEM premium has increased over time (Gemici and Wiswall 2011).(2)”
College Major, Internship Experience, and Employment Opportunities: Estimates from a Résumé Audit (2016, background): “The existing literature focuses on the effects of college attendance, university quality, and degree choice on labor-market outcomes (e.g., Oreopoulos and Petronijevic, 2013; Altonji et al., 2012).”
The lifetime earnings premia of different majors: Correcting for selection based on cognitive, noncognitive, and unobserved factors (2014, background): “For an extensive review of the curriculum and college major choice literatures, see the excellent article Altonji. et al. (2012).”