This article reviews the recent literature on the determinants of college major choices. We
first highlight long-term trends and persistent differences in college major choices by gender …

This article studies the impact of changing job skills on career earnings dynamics for college
graduates. We measure changes in the skill content of occupations between 2007 and 2019 …

ABSTRACT Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) jobs are a key contributor
to economic growth and national competitiveness. Yet STEM workers are perceived to be in …

This paper examines the bias arising from individuals' migration from administrative
outcome data, with a focus on the labor market consequences of postsecondary education …

This chapter reviews and evaluates progress in recent research on the graduate premium in
general as well as the differential graduate premiums by discipline, accounting for higher …

This paper studies the relationship between pre-college skills and the gender gap in STEM
majors. Using longitudinal data for the United States, I estimate a discrete choice model of …

Using data collected from more than 5.8 million high school and college graduates ages 18
to 65 years who participated in the American Community Survey between 2009 and 2021 …

The transition of young people into the labor market is a primary concern for policy makers
around the world. A key question is whether this transition is best facilitated through …

Individuals are often trained in a specific field but work in another. This paper analyses the
returns to different training-occupation combinations. To this end, I use an administrative …

We study the effects of expected initial wages, expected wage growth, and observed and
unobserved heterogeneity in the choice of college major in a sample of American college …