Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
18 p.
Publication Date
12-2010
Publisher
Elsevier
Source Publication
Economics of Education Review
Source ISSN
0272-7757
Abstract
This study examines whether the size of the college earnings premium varies depending on the quality of the match between an individual’s degree field and his/her occupation. The study uses the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) to obtain a new measure of the quality of occupational match for a sample of 2268 young adults with post-secondary degrees from the restricted use High School and Beyond (1980/92) data. The study finds that people whose occupations better match their degree fields earn significantly higher returns to post-secondary schooling. This result is robust to controlling for an extensive set of pre-existing differences among individuals, and to accounting for differences in earnings across post-secondary degree fields.
Recommended Citation
Yakusheva, Olga, "Return to College Education Revisited: Is Relevance Relevant?" (2010). Economics Faculty Research and Publications. 51.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/econ_fac/51
Comments
Accepted version. Economics of Education Review, Volume 29, No. 6 (December 2010), DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2010.06.006. Published under Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.