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Postsecondary Curricular Trajectories: Trends, Outcomes, and New Directions Presented: Washington DC, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Educational Research Association Keyword(s): College Degree; College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Labor Market Outcomes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper draws on recently released postsecondary transcript data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) to make three central contributions to the literature on higher education experiences and labor market outcomes. First, it provides a descriptive characterization of students' average course-taking patterns within two- and four-year colleges in the United States. Second, it introduces more granular measures of curriculum, curricular diversity and curricular intensity. And third, it links these more granular measures with labor market outcomes. Early results indicate that, after accounting for level and quality of postsecondary institution, field of academic concentration and curricular intensity matter more for labor market returns than curricular diversity one year following degree completion. Also presented at Seattle WA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2016. |
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Ciocca, Christina. "Postsecondary Curricular Trajectories: Trends, Outcomes, and New Directions." Presented: Washington DC, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 2016. |