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We study the role of foreign-born workers in the growth of employment in STEM occupations since 1980. Given the importance of employment in these fields for research and innovation, we consider their role in a model featuring endogenous non-routine-biased technical change. We use this model to...
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Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Hometown ties to fellow selection committee members increase candidates' election …
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exclusion. Initial efforts to improve the access of black students to engineering education focused on six historically black … engineering colleges, and evolved into a truly nationwide movement. Later, a larger group of Historically Black Colleges and … Universities (HBCUs) expanded educational opportunities in engineering, computer science and other technical fields, "to prepare …
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Some scholars view academic and industrial science as qualitatively different knowledge production regimes. Others claim that the two sectors are increasingly similar. Large-scale empirical evidence regarding similarities and differences, however, has been missing. Drawing on prior work on the...
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from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …-science and engineering fields as a comparison group. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that …
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Prior research has shown that immigrants make important contributions to US innovation and are more likely than natives to become entrepreneurs. However, there is little evidence on how foreign and native high-skilled workers differ prior to entering the workforce. Moreover, little attention has...
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earlier professional work experience affects skilled worker development. In a field experiment, 1,787 Engineering majors were … systematic differences in inclination to take Engineering elective courses, choice of major, and the probability of persisting in … Engineering years later—consistent with engagement, retention, and sorting effects. Early exposure notably increased academic and …
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This paper studies the effects of university STEM education on innovation and labor market outcomes by exploiting a change in enrollment requirements in Italian STEM majors. University-level scientific education had two direct effects on the development of patents by students who had acquired a...
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Substantial earnings differences exist across majors with the majors that pay well also having lower grades and higher workloads. We show that the harsher grading policies in STEM courses disproportionately affect women. To show this, we estimate a model of student demand courses and optimal...
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known about either the efficacy or costs of these programs. This paper examines affirmative action in engineering colleges … lower-caste admits end up employed in engineering or advanced technical jobs. Finally, we find no evidence that the marginal …
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