The Analysis of Field Choice in College and Graduate School: Determinants and Wage Effects

By Joseph G. Altonji, P. Arcidiacono, Arnaud Maurel. 2015

312 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/92ad40fec3924d21633c6ee3d8ede3a410249c10

Citations in the corpus

• Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers* (2020, unknown): “…of college major choice when students have heterogeneous preferences and/or learn over time about their ability (e.g., Altonji, Blom, and Meghir 2012; Webber 2014; Silos and Smith 2015; Altonji, Arcidiacono, and Maurel 2016; Arcidiacono, Aucejo, and Hotz 2016; Ransom 2016; Leighton and Speer 2020).”
• Algorithmic bias? An empirical study into apparent gender-based discrimination in the display of STEM career ads (2019, unknown): “The ad (1)This means we focus on disparity of access to information, rather than echoing the majority of the economics literature which has focused on disparities in wages (Oaxaca, 1973; Gunderson, 1989; Brown and Corcoran, 1997; Goldin, 2014; Altonji et al., 2015; Bertrand and Duflo, 2017).”
• Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study of Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads (2019, unknown): “Appendix Endnotes 1This means we focus on disparity of access to information, rather than echoing the majority of the economics literature, which has focused on disparities in wages (Oaxaca 1973, Gunderson 1989, Brown and Corcoran 1997, Goldin 2014,Altonji et al. 2015, Bertrand andDuflo 2017).”
• Shifting College Majors in Response to Advanced Placement Exam Scores (2017, unknown): “Similarly, Altonji, Arcidiacono, and Maurel (2015) suggest that a combination of major-specific abilities and individual preferences drive the choice of major for most students, while Wiswall and Zafar (2015a) estimate that 80% of the variation in major-specific tastes remains unexplained by…”