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Title: Essays in College Admissions and College Major Choice
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Arslan, Hayri Alper |
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Essays in College Admissions and College Major Choice Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, 2018 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): College Graduates; College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Expectations/Intentions; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In the third chapter, co-authored with Tong Li, we test the effects of marriage expectations on college major choices. The data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) show that there are significant differences in marriage realizations of college graduates from different majors. Selection of a major with different marriage expectations can present one potential explanation for why there are observed differences in the marriage outcomes. To test this hypothesis, we develop a copula-based econometric framework that incorporates multinomial regressors (major choice) in binary outcome response (marriage realization) models. Our test results show that the effects of marriage expectations can not be rejected, even after individual characteristics and expected earnings are controlled for. |
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Arslan, Hayri Alper. Essays in College Admissions and College Major Choice. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, 2018. |