"Im Mittelpunkt steht die These, daß die aktuelle hochschulpolitische Diskussion primär von statusdistributiven Anforderungen an das Bildungssystem geprägt ist, während Fragen der Qualifizierung an Gewicht verlieren. Ausschlaggebend ist nicht die Sorge um Fehlqualifikationen, sondern um...

The low number of college graduates with science degrees - particularly among under-represented minorities - is of growing concern. We examine differences across universities in graduating students in different fields. Using student-level data on the University of California system during a...

Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college towns and investigates differences in employment...

This paper develops an equilibrium sorting model with utility maximizing researchers who differ in their ability on one side of the market, and on the other side universities and an outside sector. In equilibrium, the top of the ability distribution is allocated to the academic sector, while the...

Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected pathway through which individuals sort into homogeneous marriages. These descriptive studies raise the question of why college graduates are so likely to marry someone within their...

Eine moderne Industrienation wie Deutschland ist auf hoch qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte in hohem Maße angewiesen. Den deutschen Hochschulen kommt dabei eine besondere Verantwortung zu, ihre Absolventinnen und Absolventen mit dem Wissen und den Fähigkeiten auszustatten, wie sie am Arbeitsmarkt...