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

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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

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Description	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.
Subject	Social Sciences
Related Publication	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.doi: 10.1257/aer.20141757
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Persistent Identifier	doi:10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0
Publication Date	2018-07-10
Title	Replication Data for: The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study
Author	Deming, David J.Harvard Graduate School of Education Yuchtman, NoamUniversity of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Abulafi, AmiraNational Bureau of Economic Research Goldin, ClaudiaHarvard University Katz, Lawrence F.Harvard University
Point of Contact	Use email button above to contact. 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)
Description	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.
Subject	Social Sciences
Topic Classification	Higher and further education (CESSDA) https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification?code=EducationEducationalPolicy Educational policy (CESSDA) https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification?code=EducationEducationalPolicy Employment (CESSDA) https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification?code=EducationEducationalPolicy
Related Publication	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. doi 10.1257/aer.20141757 https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20141757
Funding Information	Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education: R305C110011
Depositor	Parrado, Andres
Deposit Date	2018-07-01
Date of Collection	Start Date: 2014-04-01; End Date: 2014-12-31
Data Type	Event/transaction data
Related Material	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

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Geographic Coverage	United States, Chicago United States, Los Angeles United States, Miami United States, New York City United States, San Francisco Bay Area

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Unit of Analysis	Individual: Other: Resumes by hypothetical job applicants
Universe	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.
Time Method	One-time cross-sectional data
Sampling Procedure	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
Target Sample Size	10484
Collection Mode	Other: job postings on a job portal
Weighting	No

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