Who goes to graduate/professional school? The importance of economic fluctuations, undergraduate field, and ability

By Kelly Bedard, Douglas A. Herman. 2008

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Race and Gender Differences in College Major Choice (2010, background): “Bedard and Herman (2008) and Black, Sanders and Taylor (2003) provide evidence that undergraduate major affects graduate school attendance.”
• The Analysis of Field Choice in College and Graduate School: Determinants and Wage Effects (2015, unknown): “Beffy et al. (2012) use French data to estimate a sequential schooling decisions model where students choose their major by comparing the (rationally) expected earnings and non-monetary characteristics associated with each major. In this framework, in the spirit of Altonji (1993), the potential leve”