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Refining Workforce Education Supply And Demand Analysis: Final Report, Brad J. Hershbein, Kevin Hollenbeck
Refining Workforce Education Supply And Demand Analysis: Final Report, Brad J. Hershbein, Kevin Hollenbeck
Brad J. Hershbein
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Worker Signals Among New College Graduates: The Role Of Selectivity And Gpa, Brad J. Hershbein
Worker Signals Among New College Graduates: The Role Of Selectivity And Gpa, Brad J. Hershbein
Brad J. Hershbein
Recent studies have found a large earnings premium to attending a more selective college, but the mechanisms underlying this premium have received little attention and remain unclear. In order to shed light on this question, I develop a multidimensional signaling model relying on college grades and selectivity that rationalizes students’ choices of effort and firms’ wage-setting behavior. The model is then used to produce predictions of how the interaction of the signals should be related to wages, namely that the return on college GPA should fall the more selective the institution attended. Using five data sets that span the early …
A Second Look At Enrollment Changes After The Kalamazoo Promise, Brad J. Hershbein
A Second Look At Enrollment Changes After The Kalamazoo Promise, Brad J. Hershbein
Brad J. Hershbein
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Is College The New High School? Evidence From Vacancy Postings, Brad Hershbein
Is College The New High School? Evidence From Vacancy Postings, Brad Hershbein
Brad J. Hershbein
Do firms demand more skilled workers in a slack labor market? We use a new database of job vacancy postings, containing a near-universe of electronic posts in U.S. metro areas, collected by the firm Burning Glass over the period 2010-2013. We find evidence of upskilling – firms demanding more skilled workers – when the local unemployment rate is higher, i.e., in places where the recovery following the Great Recession was slower. Our estimates imply that firms demand three-quarters of a year more schooling on average in a large recession compared to a boom. We find that at least two-thirds of …
Is There A Case For A "Second Demographic Transition"?: Three Distinctive Features Of The Post-1960 Us Fertility Decline, Martha Bailey, Melanie Guldi, Brad Hershbein
Is There A Case For A "Second Demographic Transition"?: Three Distinctive Features Of The Post-1960 Us Fertility Decline, Martha Bailey, Melanie Guldi, Brad Hershbein
Brad J. Hershbein
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An Event Study Of Ui Benefit Cuts: Evidence From North Carolina, Brad Hershbein, Christopher O'Leary
An Event Study Of Ui Benefit Cuts: Evidence From North Carolina, Brad Hershbein, Christopher O'Leary
Brad J. Hershbein
On July 1, 2013, North Carolina cut the maximum duration of UI benefits from 63 weeks (or 99 with EUC) to 19 weeks and the maximum weekly payout from $535 to $350. As of January 1, 2014, the EUC program ended nationwide and several states have cut maximum benefits to below 26 weeks. While several newspaper articles and blogs have offered descriptive evidence of the results of North Carolina’s policy change, there has been no rigorous and systematic analysis. Using synthetic control methods pioneered by Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller, and CPS data, we will investigate the impact of the UI …