University Admission and the Similarity of Fields of Study: Effects on Earnings and Skill Usage
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Using discontinuities from the Danish college enrollment system, we find that students who are marginally accepted into their preferred program in a broad field that is different from their next-best choice (e.g., business rather than science) experience significant and long-lasting rewards as a result. In contrast, students whose preferred and next-best programs lie within the same broad field do not. Exploiting data from online job postings, we find that the estimated effects on skill usage similarly vary according to the degree of similarity between preferred and next-best choices.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 102118 |
Journal | Labour Economics |
Volume | 75 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISSN | 0927-5371 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2022 |
Bibliographical note
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We are grateful for the help and comments of Mikael Andersen, Fane Groes, Simon Jäger, Søren Leth-Petersen, Tore Olsen, Dario Pozzoli, Anders Sørensen, and members of the Copenhagen Education Network. We would also like to thank our research assistant, Oliver-Alexander Press. This work was supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation grant number NNF16OC0021056 .
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- earnings, Field of study, online job postings, regression discontinuity, skills
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