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Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
July 2023, Paper: "Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges — which currently have…
June 2023, Paper: "The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of workers followed through…
2023, Paper: "For decades, a college degree has been considered the key to unlock economic prosperity in the United States. College degree-holders have, on average, earned higher…
March 8, 2023, Opinion: "For the past two years, a bipartisan group of researchers and analysts convened by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the…
March 2023, Paper: "This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the canonical model of…
2022, Paper: "This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-…
April 7, 2021, Video: "Well before the pandemic, a group of educators and economists saw glitches on the pathway from school to career. Workplaces — increasingly collaborative and…
January 2021, Video; "Each week five experts give their 8- minute pitch for a big question, important finding, promising policy solution, or research frontier for the next…
For-Profit Colleges. David Deming, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, Spring 2013, Paper. "For-profit, or proprietary, colleges are the fastest-growing postsecondary schools in the…
The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators? David Deming, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, December 2011, Paper. "Private for-profit…