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

Type Dataset 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. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0

Authors: 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) ; 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) ;

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Summary

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.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0

Subjects

• Social Sciences
• CESSDA: Higher and further education, Educational policy, Employment

Dates

• Publication date: 2018
• Submitted: July 01, 2018
• Updated: July 26, 2022
• Collected: April 01, 2014 to December 31, 2014

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Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

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electronic resource

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