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Direct linkKreisman, Daniel; Stange, Kevin – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
Vocational education is a large part of the high school curriculum, yet we have little understanding of what drives vocational enrollment or whether these courses help or harm early careers. To address this deficiency, we develop a framework for curriculum choice, taking into account ability and preferences for academic and vocational work. We…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys
Richey, Jeremiah – Education Economics, 2015
This paper documents changes in the entire ability distribution of individuals entering the teaching profession using the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and a constructed Armed Force Qualifying Test score that allows direct comparison of ability between cohorts. Such direct comparison between cohorts was…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Ability
Cochran, Daria B.; Wang, Eugene W.; Stevenson, Sarah J.; Johnson, Leah E.; Crews, Charles – Career Development Quarterly, 2011
The authors investigated the relationship between adolescent occupational aspirations and midlife career success. The model for adolescent occupational aspirations was derived from Gottfredson's (1981) theory of circumscription and compromise. The authors hypothesized that parental socioeconomic status (SES), ability, and gender predict adolescent…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Adolescents, Theories, Self Concept
Arcidiacono, Peter; Bayer, Patrick; Hizmo, Aurel – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
In traditional signaling models, education provides a way for individuals to sort themselves by ability. Employers in turn use education to statistically discriminate, paying wages that reflect the average productivity of workers with the same given level of education. In this paper, we provide evidence that education (specifically, attending…
Descriptors: Wages, Human Capital, Race, Labor Market
Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Light, Audrey – Journal of Human Resources, 2010
Researchers often identify degree effects by including degree attainment ("D") and years of schooling ("S") in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these measures is not well understood. We argue that "S" is negatively correlated with ability among degree-holders because the most able graduate the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Wages
Peer reviewedArkes, Jeremy – Economics of Education Review, 1999
Examines whether employers can infer information about workers' precollege abilities from acquired college credentials and value attainment of credentials because they signal these abilities. Analysis of 1993 National Longitudinal Study of Youth data reveals that employers value attainment of a bachelor's degree for these reasons. Academic degrees…
Descriptors: Ability, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Credentials
