Did the Value of a College Degree Decline during the Great Recession?

Rajashri Chakrabarti, Michelle Jiang and William Nober

No 20190710, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: The authors have previously explored the impact of choices regarding school and major on employment, earnings, and upward economic mobility. In this post they extend their work with an investigation into whether these labor market effects were preserved across the last business cycle: Did students with certain types of educational attainment weather the recession better?

Keywords: Earnings; Employment; Recession; Economic mobility; Boom; Bust; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-07-10
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