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 …

For the past 20 years, social scientists have devoted increasing attention to the links
between type of postsecondary education received and socioeconomic inequalities …

As the workforce has become more educated, educational decisions are about what type of
education to pursue as well as how much to pursue. In college, individuals somewhat …

In this article, Lois Weis and Michelle Fine introduce critical bifocality as a way to render
visible the relations between groups to structures of power, to social policies, to history, and …

Abstract Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth we examine processes by which
students enter lucrative fields of study, selective colleges, and lucrative fields within selective …

Our understanding about the relationship between education and lifetime earnings often
neglects differences by field of study. Utilizing data that match respondents in the Survey of …

Previous studies on the determinants of the choice of college major have assumed a
constant probability of success across majors or a constant earnings stream across majors …

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For several decades now, social scientists interested in the relationship between higher
education and social stratification have directed their research efforts toward evaluating how …

A variety of economic concepts, theories, and models have been useful in the study of the
finance of higher education (Cohn and Geske, 1990; Leslie and Brinkman, 1988; Paulsen …