The returns to college major choice: Average and distributional effects, career trajectories, and earnings variability

RJ Andrews, SA Imberman, MF Lovenheim… - Review of Economics …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
A growing literature examining labor market returns to college major is motivated by large
returns to skill. Prior research focuses on mean effects rather than earnings growth and …

Unbundling the Effects of College on First-Job Search: Returns to Majors, Minors, Internships, Study Abroad, and Computer Skills

J Arellano-Bover, C Bussotti, JM Nunley… - … , Study Abroad, and …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We analyze the initial job-market matching of new US college graduates with a large-scale
audit study conducted during 2016 and 2017, in which 36,880 résumés of college seniors …