I use data from the 1993 National Survey of College Graduates and appended 1990 Census on about 11,000 men and women college graduates (8400 with bachelor’s degrees only, and 2800 with graduate degrees) who earned degrees in a 5-year period (1984–1988), to address questions regarding the link between college major and early-career gender pay differentials. I look at within-major gender pay diff...

Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career loss from graduating in recessions. Using Norwegian data, we find a strong countercyclical p...

The allure of the IS major depends on the successful placements of recent IS graduates in rewarding careers. The rise of the data science field provides an opportunity to rebrand and rebuild IS departments using the careerplacement successes of IS graduates as a springboard. This paper describes a framework that IS departments can use to coordinate between the employer demand side and the gradu...

UNLABELLED The National Postbaccalaureate Collaborative (NPBC) is a partnership of Postbaccalaureate Programs (PBPs) dedicated to helping promising college graduates from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds get into and succeed in medical school. This study aims to determine long-term program outcomes by looking at PBP graduates, who are now practicing physicians, in terms of health ...

This paper addresses how institutional selectivity influences college preferences and enrollment decisions of Texas seniors in the presence of a putatively race-neutral admissions policy—the top 10% law. We analyze a representative survey of Texas high school seniors as of spring, 2002, who were re-interviewed one year later to evaluate differences in selectivity of college preferences and enro...