Graduate Education and the Earnings of Men and Women

研究生教育和男性和女性的收入

• 批准号: 2117362
• 负责人: Joseph Altonji
• 金额: $ 40.6万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117362&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Graduate; Education; Earnings; Men; Women

This research project will study the earnings and careers of highly educated men and women, with a focus on graduate education. A large fraction of college graduates choose to obtain an advanced degree, but there is little reliable information about the labor market payoff to graduate study. The project will provide estimates for men and for women of the value of an Masters in Business Administration (MBA), a Juris Doctor (JD), a Master of Science (MS) in engineering, and several other advanced degrees. The research will also explore how the return to specific graduate degrees depends on a person’s college major and on the quality of the school. The estimated returns would be useful to individuals making education decisions and to policy makers deciding where to invest in graduate education. The project will use the estimates to decompose earnings differences between highly educated men and women into gender differences in college major choice; gender differences in graduate degree choice; gender differences in the labor market return to specific college majors and advanced degrees; and other factors. The final part of the project will study how trends in the college major, graduate field, and occupation choices of men and women have influenced the gender gaps in occupational attainment and earnings over the last several decades.The project will involve merging data from surveys conducted by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) with Census surveys and earnings and employment histories from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program. These data will be a new and important resource for researchers and will amplify the value of the NCSES surveys. Fixed effects strategies will be used to address the selection and omitted variables problems associated with estimating returns to specific graduate degrees. Various decomposition methods will be used to decompose gender gaps in occupational attainment and earnings. Hierarchical clustering methods will be used to study gender differences in sequences of graduate education, labor force participation, and occupation over a career.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个研究项目将研究受过高等教育的男女的收入和职业，重点是研究生教育。很大一部分大学毕业生选择获得更高的学位，但几乎没有关于劳动力市场对研究生学习的回报的可靠信息。该项目将为男性和女性提供工商管理硕士（MBA）、法学博士（JD）、工程科学硕士（MS）和其他几个高级学位的价值估计。该研究还将探讨特定研究生学位的回报如何取决于一个人的大学专业和学校的质量。估计的回报将有助于个人作出教育决定和政策制定者决定在哪里投资研究生教育。该项目将利用这些估计值将受过高等教育的男女之间的收入差异分解为大学专业选择的性别差异；研究生学位选择的性别差异劳动力市场的性别差异回归到具体的大学专业和高等学位；还有其他因素。该项目的最后一部分将研究在过去几十年中，男女在大学专业、研究生领域和职业选择方面的趋势如何影响职业成就和收入方面的性别差距。该项目将涉及将国家科学与工程统计中心（NCSES）进行的调查数据与来自纵向雇主-家庭动态计划的人口普查调查以及收入和就业历史数据合并。这些数据将为研究人员提供新的重要资源，并将扩大NCSES调查的价值。固定效应策略将用于解决与估计特定研究生学位收益相关的选择和省略变量问题。将使用各种分解方法来分解职业成就和收入方面的性别差距。层次聚类方法将用于研究研究生教育、劳动力参与和职业生涯的性别差异。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。