Moving beyond the STEM/Non-STEM Dichotomy: Wage Benefits to Increasing the STEM-Intensities of College Coursework and Occupational Requirements

Autor/inn/en	Light, Audrey; Rama, Apoorva
Titel	Moving beyond the STEM/Non-STEM Dichotomy: Wage Benefits to Increasing the STEM-Intensities of College Coursework and Occupational Requirements
Quelle	In: Education Economics, 27 (2019) 4, S.358-382 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-5292
DOI	10.1080/09645292.2019.1616078
Schlagwörter	STEM Education; Gender Differences; Prediction; College Graduates; Employment Qualifications; Salary Wage Differentials; Outcomes of Education; Classification; Armed Forces; Longitudinal Studies; National Surveys; Majors (Students); Educational Attainment; Educational Benefits; Armed Forces Qualification Test; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? STEM; Geschlechterkonflikt; Vorhersage; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Military; Militär; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Bildungsertrag
Abstract	Using a sample of college graduates from the NLSY97, we introduce a new approach to assessing wage benefits of STEM training, STEM jobs, and the match between the two: rather than classify individuals dichotomously as STEM or non-STEM, we measure the STEM-intensities of both their college coursework and their occupational requirements. While the orthodox approach simply predicts that 'STEM pays,' we find that workers at the top of both gender-specific STEM-intensity distributions are predicted to out-earn their counterparts at the bottom by a substantial margin -- even when we condition on their dichotomous STEM classification -- but that predicted log-wages do "not" increase monotonically with STEM-intensity throughout the entire joint distribution. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01