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Do Students' College Major Choices Respond to Changes in Wages? CEDR Working Paper. WP #2014-­6
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Long, Mark C.; Goldhaber, Dan; Huntington-Klein, Nick – Center for Education Data & Research, 2014
We find statistically significant relationships between changes in wages by occupation and subsequent changes in college majors completed in associated fields. College majors (defined at a detailed level) are most strongly related to wages observed three years earlier, when students were college freshmen. The responses to wages vary depending on…
Descriptors: College Students, Majors (Students), Statistical Significance, Comparative Analysis