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Author: Curry, Matthew K.
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Gender Differences in College Effects on Employment across Economic Context Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): College Education; Economic Changes/Recession; Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Unemployment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Seven years after the Great Recession began, the labor market has still not fully recovered. Empirical evidence suggests that the negative effects of the recession were not uniform across the population. In fact, employment losses were greatest among men and the less-educated. However, it is unclear whether college acted as a buffer during tough economic times or whether differences between educational groups are due to selection bias, where the most able both graduate college and obtain good jobs. It is also unclear whether any treatment effects of college differ by gender. Using NLSY-97 data and doubly robust estimation, I test whether treatment effects of college completion are responsive to changes in economic context for young men and for young women. Preliminary results suggest gender differences in college’s protective effect during recessions, with the average young man benefiting most from college during poor economic contexts. |
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Curry, Matthew K. "Gender Differences in College Effects on Employment across Economic Context." Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015. |
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How Recessions Affect Returns to College Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): College Degree; College Graduates; Educational Attainment; Employment; Labor Force Participation; Propensity Scores Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The Great Recession has been the worst economic downturn in the United States since the 1930s. Five years after it began, the labor market has still not recovered. The popular press has highlighted the hardships faced by recent college graduates, but empirical evidence from sociologists and economists suggests that this woe may be misplaced. In fact, college graduates seem to be doing relatively well compared to their less educated peers. However, it is unclear whether college acts as a buffer during tough economic times or whether differences between educational groups are due to selection bias, where the most able both graduate college and obtain good jobs. Using NLSY-97 data and propensity score matching, I test whether causal returns to college are responsive to changes in economic context. Furthermore, I investigate heterogeneity of these effects to test whether college completion is more or less valuable during recessions for different populations. |
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Curry, Matthew K. "How Recessions Affect Returns to College." Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013. |
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The Great Recession and Causal Effects of College for Young Workers Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): College Graduates; Economic Changes/Recession; Higher Education; Propensity Scores Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. During the aftermath of the Great Recession, many press accounts focused on the difficulties facing recent college graduates, concerned that worsening economic conditions had rendered 4-year college degrees significantly less valuable. However, data collected by sociologists and economists suggests a different picture, as they note that college graduates did well during the recession and recovery compared to those with less education. Still, it remains unclear whether college acted as a protective factor during the economic downturn or if the positive effect of higher education was merely a product of differential selection into college. Using panel data from the NLSY-97 and propensity score matching to control for selection bias, I test whether the causal effects of college on socioeconomic outcomes for young adults changed during the Great Recession, and whether any changes in these effects have been homogenous across the population. |
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Curry, Matthew K. "The Great Recession and Causal Effects of College for Young Workers." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014. |
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The Great Recession and Shifting Patterns of College Effects for Young Men Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 59 (February 2019): 34-45. Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562418300180 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): College Education; Earnings; Economic Changes/Recession; Educational Returns College effects for young men's earnings, employment, and wages differ across economic context and the propensity to complete college. For low-propensity individuals, recessionary contexts increased the effects of college on employment and earnings, but not on wages. For high-propensity individuals, the opposite pattern occurred, with college effects on wages increasing during recessionary contexts. Results are consistent with labor queues, where reductions in available jobs causes more desired workers to displace less desirable workers below them in the queue |
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Curry, Matthew K. "The Great Recession and Shifting Patterns of College Effects for Young Men." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 59 (February 2019): 34-45.
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The Great Recession and the Effects of Higher Education Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): College Education; Economic Changes/Recession; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Labor Market Outcomes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation uses panel data to quantitatively assess the effects of college completion and elite college attendance on individual labor market outcomes during the Great Recession (2007-09). The effects of the Great Recession, the most protracted and severe economic downturn experienced in the U.S. since World War II, were felt unevenly across levels of educational attainment. After controlling for observable precollege variables such as cognitive ability, socioeconomic and demographic background, and high school experiences, substantial treatment effects of college completion remained during the Great Recession, though these were heterogeneous across the type of outcome and across individuals. Disadvantaged individuals benefitted the most from college completion on measures of employment, while more advantaged individuals benefitted greatest from college on measures of job quality. Furthermore, comparing effects of college among young workers who experienced expansionary economic contexts to those who experienced recessionary contexts showed that the patterns of effects described above were specific to recessionary contexts. Thus, experiencing a recessionary context led to an increase in the effect of college on employment among those least likely to complete college, and an increase in the effect of college on job quality for those most likely to complete college, conditional on employment. These results are consistent with the job competition model of the labor market, which utilizes a labor queue and predicts occupational downgrading at the top of the labor queue and crowding out of employment near the bottom of the labor queue. A similar hypothesis was not supported for the effects of elite college attendance during the Great Recession. The findings of this dissertation suggest that the economic context interacts with the effects of educational attainment on individual labor market outcomes in uneven ways, producing a unique constellation of education effects according to the economic context. Therefore, fluctuations in the business cycle can contribute to the stratification of individuals by affecting their labor market outcomes directly, but also by affecting the relationships between preexisting individual characteristics, educational attainment, and labor market outcomes. |
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Curry, Matthew K. The Great Recession and the Effects of Higher Education. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016. |