Women obtain more than half of US undergraduate degrees in biology, chemistry, and
mathematics, yet they earn less than 20% of computer science, engineering, and physics …

Motivated by the large differences in labor market outcomes across college majors, we
survey the literature on the demand for and return to high school and postsecondary …

内容提要: 本文总结了国内外有关大学生就业问题的研究文献, 通过问卷调查, 统计分析,
深度访谈等研究方法, 从就业制度的演变, 大学生劳动力市场的供求变动, 个人就业意愿和行为 …

Countries around the world are enacting pay transparency policies to combat pay
discrimination. Since 2000, 71 percent of OECD countries have done so. Most are enacting …

We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness
heuristic. A decision maker assesses a target group by overweighting its representative …

This article examines the labor market payoffs to different types of postsecondary education,
including field and institution of study. Instrumental variables (IV) estimation of the payoff to …

In modern societies, education has become a lifelong process. This has made the principles
of life-course research of utmost significance in empirical education research. As stated by …

This article studies the determinants of college major choice using an experimentally
generated panel of beliefs, obtained by providing students with information on the true …

Economists emphasize the link between market returns to education and investments in
schooling. Though many studies estimate these returns with earnings data, it is the …

To predict choice behavior, the standard practice of economists has been to infer decision
processes from data on observed choices. When decision makers act with partial …