| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26420 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26420 |
| The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major | |
| Ran Abramitzky; Victor Lavy; Maayan Segev | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-11-18 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the impact of financial incentives on higher education decisions and the choice of major. We rely on a reform whereby Israeli kibbutzim shifted from their traditional policy of equal sharing to productivity-based wages. We use for identification the staggered implementation of this reform in different kibbutzim. In this setting of very low initial returns to education, we find that the dramatic increase in the rate of return and its sharp variation across fields of study led to a large increase in the probability of receiving a Bachelor degree, especially in STEM fields of study that are expected to yield higher financial returns. For men this increase was largely in computer science and engineering, and for women in biology, chemistry and computer science. Our findings suggest that investment in higher education and the choice of major are responsive to increases in the return to education for both men and women. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26420 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584125 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ran Abramitzky,Victor Lavy,Maayan Segev. The Effect of Changes in the Skill Premium on College Degree Attainment and the Choice of Major. 2019. |
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| w26420.pdf（391KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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