Replication Data for: The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study (doi:10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0)

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Replication Data for: The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study

doi:10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0

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2018-07-10

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Deming, David J.; Yuchtman, Noam; Abulafi, Amira; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F., 2018, "Replication Data for: The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Replication Data for: The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study

doi:10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0

Deming, David J. (Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Yuchtman, Noam (University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business)

Abulafi, Amira (National Bureau of Economic Research)

Goldin, Claudia (Harvard University)

Katz, Lawrence F. (Harvard University)

R305C110011

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Deming, David J.

Yuchtman, Noam

Abulafi, Amira

Goldin, Claudia

Katz, Lawrence F.

Parrado, Andres

2018-07-01

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0

Social Sciences

Higher and further education, Educational policy, Employment

We study employers' perceptions of the value of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector and selectivity of institutions to fictitious resumes and apply to real vacancy postings for business and health jobs on a large online job board. We find that a business bachelor's degree from a for-profit online institution is 22 percent less likely to receive a callback than one from a nonselective public institution. In applications to health jobs, we find that for-profit credentials receive fewer callbacks unless the job requires an external quality indicator such as an occupational license.

2014-04-01-2014-12-31

United States, United States, United States, United States, United States

Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area

Individual: Other: Resumes by hypothetical job applicants

The authors study the impact of differences in educational credentials on the callback for health and business sectors in the major cities. They study large labor markets to ensure sufficient overlap of degrees awarded and occupations across public and for-profit institutions. The degrees in the study were chosen to be representative of the credentials from for-profit or public institutions. At least half of all for-profit degrees on resumes that they sent to business jobs came from online institutions, with the other half coming from local brick-and-mortar institutions. They also included 4-year public institutions of varying selectivity - at least half of the degrees on the resumes were from the least selective public institutions in the combined statistical area. They also imposed the restriction that every institution operated in the local labor market.

Event/transaction data

One-time cross-sectional data

The cities were chosen because of the sufficient overlap of job and degree characteristics The resume characteristics were decided based on the graduation rates and work experience data from actual people. However, the authors use some discretion in assigning degrees on resumes to online vs brick and mortar for profit institutions. Similarly they used some discretion for assigning degrees to selective vs non selective public institutions. They also used some discretion to assign work characteristics The jobs position were chosen based on both availability and minimum required qualifications

Other: job postings on a job portal

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Deming, David et al. 2017. ""An Experimental Study of the Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market."" AEA RCT Registry. May 03. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.262-4.0

Deming, David J., Noam Yuchtman, Amira Abulafi, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2016. "The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study." American Economic Review, 106 (3): 778-806.

Deming, David J., Yuchtman, Noam, Abulafi, Amira, Goldin, Claudia, and Katz, Lawrence F. Replication data for: The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113033V1

Deming, David J., Noam Yuchtman, Amira Abulafi, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2016. "The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study." American Economic Review, 106 (3): 778-806.

10.1257/aer.20141757

Deming, David J., Noam Yuchtman, Amira Abulafi, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2016. "The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study." American Economic Review, 106 (3): 778-806.

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