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Booth School of Business
University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (United States)
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Working papers

  1. Jack Mountjoy, 2024. "Marginal Returns to Public Universities," NBER Working Papers 32296, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Jack Mountjoy, 2021. "Community Colleges and Upward Mobility," NBER Working Papers 29254, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Jack Mountjoy & Brent R. Hickman, 2021. "The Returns to College(s): Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education," NBER Working Papers 29276, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Ivan A. Canay & Magne Mogstad & Jack Mountjoy, 2020. "On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making," Working Papers 2020-125, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.
  5. Jack Mountjoy & Brent Hickman, 2020. "The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education," Working Papers 2020-08, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.
  6. Marianne Bertrand & Magne Mogstad & Jack Mountjoy, 2019. "Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s “Reform 94”," NBER Working Papers 25679, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Jack Mountjoy, 2022. "Community Colleges and Upward Mobility," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 112(8), pages 2580-2630, August.
  2. Marianne Bertrand & Magne Mogstad & Jack Mountjoy, 2021. "Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 94," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 39(4), pages 965-1010.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Jack Mountjoy, 2021. "Community Colleges and Upward Mobility," NBER Working Papers 29254, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Britto, Diogo & Fonseca, Alexandre & Pinotti, Paolo & Sampaio, Breno & Warwar, Lucas, 2022. "Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality," IZA Discussion Papers 15611, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Sönke Hendrik Matthewes & Guglielmo Ventura, 2022. "On Track to Success? Returns to vocational education against different alternatives," CVER Research Papers 038, Centre for Vocational Education Research.
    3. Nadja van 't Hoff, 2023. "Identifying Causal Effects of Nonbinary, Ordered Treatments using Multiple Instrumental Variables," Papers 2311.17575, arXiv.org.
    4. Federica Braccioli & Paolo Ghinetti & Simone Moriconi & Costanza Naguib & Michele Pellizzari, 2023. "Education Expansion, College Choice and Labour Market Success," CESifo Working Paper Series 10842, CESifo.
    5. Kenneth Lee & Edward Miguel & Catherine Wolfram, 2019. "Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?," NBER Working Papers 26528, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Acton, Riley & Orr, Cody & Rogers, Salem, 2023. "Returns to School Spending in Rural America: Evidence from Wisconsin's Sparsity Aid Program," IZA Discussion Papers 15915, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    7. Sönke Hendrik Matthewes & Guglielmo Ventura, 2022. "On Track to Success? Returns to Vocational Education Against Different Alternatives," CEPA Discussion Papers 58, Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
    8. Felipe Gonzalez & Luis R. Martinez & Pablo Munoz & Mounu Prem, 2023. "Higher education and mortality: legacies of an authoritarian college contraction," Working Papers 965, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance.
    9. Jorge Rodríguez & Fernando Saltiel & Sergio S. Urzúa, 2018. "Dynamic Treatment Effects of Job Training," NBER Working Papers 25408, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. Manu Navjeevan & Rodrigo Pinto & Andres Santos, 2023. "Identification and Estimation in a Class of Potential Outcomes Models," Papers 2310.05311, arXiv.org.
    11. Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi & Justman, Moshe, 2024. "Family background, education, and earnings: The limited value of "test-score transmission"," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1388, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    12. Murphy, Richard J. & Silva, Pedro Luís, 2024. "Keeping It in the Family: Student to Degree Match," IZA Discussion Papers 16931, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    13. Federica Braccioli & Paolo Ghinetti & Simone Moriconi & Costanza Naguib & Michele Pellizzari, 2024. "Education expansion, college choice and labour market success," Working Papers 2024-iFlame-02, IESEG School of Management.
    14. Bartalotti, Otávio & Kédagni, Désiré & Possebom, Vitor, 2023. "Identifying marginal treatment effects in the presence of sample selection," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 234(2), pages 565-584.
    15. Manudeep Bhuller & Henrik Sigstad, 2022. "2SLS with Multiple Treatments," Papers 2205.07836, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2024.
    16. Clint Harris, 2022. "Interpreting Instrumental Variable Estimands with Unobserved Treatment Heterogeneity: The Effects of College Education," Papers 2211.13132, arXiv.org.
    17. Elad DeMalach, 2023. "Geographic Barriers to Education in Disadvantaged Communities: Evidence from High School Openings in Israeli Arab Localities," Bank of Israel Working Papers 2023.02, Bank of Israel.
    18. Sloczynski, Tymon, 2021. "When Should We (Not) Interpret Linear IV Estimands as LATE?," IZA Discussion Papers 14349, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    19. Esteban M. Aucejo & Claudia Hupkau & Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, 2020. "Where versus What: College Value-Added and Returns to Field of Study in Further Education," CVER Research Papers 030, Centre for Vocational Education Research.
    20. Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys & Ferreyra, Maria Marta & Urzua, Sergio & Bassi, Marina, 2023. "What makes a program good? Evidence from short-cycle higher education programs in five developing countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
    21. Rodolfo M. Nayga & Jianhui Liu & Bachir Kassas, 2024. "The looming demographic cliff: A wake‐up call for the agricultural and applied economics profession," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 106(2), pages 468-484, March.
    22. Zhewen Pan & Zhengxin Wang & Junsen Zhang & Yahong Zhou, 2024. "Marginal treatment effects in the absence of instrumental variables," Papers 2401.17595, arXiv.org.
    23. Koki Fusejima, 2020. "Identification of multi-valued treatment effects with unobserved heterogeneity," Papers 2010.04385, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2023.
    24. Riley K. Acton & Kalena Cortes & Camila Morales, 2024. "Distance to Opportunity: Higher Education Deserts and College Enrollment Choices," NBER Chapters, in: Financing Institutions of Higher Education, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    25. Jonathan Smith & Joshua Goodman & Michael Hurwitz, 2020. "The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges," NBER Working Papers 27177, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    26. Carolina Arteaga, 2021. "Parental Incarceration and Children's Educational Attainment," Working Papers tecipa-703, University of Toronto, Department of Economics.
    27. Vishal Kamat & Samuel Norris & Matthew Pecenco, 2023. "Identification in Multiple Treatment Models under Discrete Variation," Papers 2307.06174, arXiv.org.
    28. Juan Esteban Carranza & María Marta Ferreyra & Ana Maria Gazmuri, 2023. "The Dynamic Market for Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs," Borradores de Economia 1265, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    29. Humlum, Anders & Munch, Jakob R. & Rasmussen, Mette, 2023. "What Works for the Unemployed? Evidence from Quasi-Random Caseworker Assignments," IZA Discussion Papers 16033, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    30. William Arbour & Steeve Marchand, 2022. "Parole, Recidivism, and the Role of Supervised Transition," Working Papers tecipa-725, University of Toronto, Department of Economics.

  2. Jack Mountjoy & Brent R. Hickman, 2021. "The Returns to College(s): Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education," NBER Working Papers 29276, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Fu, Chao & Guo, Junjie & Smith, Adam J. & Sorensen, Alan, 2022. "Students’ heterogeneous preferences and the uneven spatial distribution of colleges," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 49-64.
    2. Alexa Prettyman, 2024. "States of Opportunity for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care," Working Papers 2024-01, Towson University, Department of Economics, revised Jan 2024.
    3. Paolo Martellini & Todd Schoellman & Jason A. Sockin, 2022. "The Global Distribution of College Graduate Quality," Working Papers 791, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
    4. Del Bono, Emilia & Fumagalli, Laura & Holford, Angus & Rabe, Birgitta, 2022. "University access: the role of background and COVID-19 throughout the application process," ISER Working Paper Series 2022-07, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
    5. Edwards, Ashley & Ortagus, Justin & Smith, Jonathan & Smythe, Andria, 2023. "HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes," IZA Discussion Papers 16632, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Marco Ovidi, 2022. "Parents Know Better: Sorting on Match Effects in Primary School," DISCE - Working Papers del Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza def121, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE).

  3. Ivan A. Canay & Magne Mogstad & Jack Mountjoy, 2020. "On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making," Working Papers 2020-125, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Arcidiacono, Peter & Kinsler, Josh & Ransom, Tyler, 2022. "Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
    2. Dobbie, Will & Hull, Peter & Arnold, David, 2022. "Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions," University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series qt6f22n2h3, Department of Economics, UC San Diego.
    3. Rahul Deb & Ludovic Renou, 2022. "Which wage distributions are consistent with statistical discrimination?," Working Papers tecipa-736, University of Toronto, Department of Economics.
    4. Laura Blattner & Scott Nelson, 2021. "How Costly is Noise? Data and Disparities in Consumer Credit," Papers 2105.07554, arXiv.org.
    5. Will Dobbie & Crystal S. Yang, 2021. "The US Pretrial System: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Interests," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 35(4), pages 49-70, Fall.
    6. Lee, Ji Hyung & Park, Byoung G., 2023. "Nonparametric identification and estimation of the extended Roy model," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 235(2), pages 1087-1113.

  4. Jack Mountjoy & Brent Hickman, 2020. "The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education," Working Papers 2020-08, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Joshua D. Angrist & Peter Hull & Parag Pathak & Christopher Walters, 2020. "Simple and Credible Value-Added Estimation Using Centralized School Assignment," Working Papers 2020-186, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.
    2. Sandra E. Black & Jeffrey T. Denning & Jesse Rothstein, 2020. "Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes," NBER Working Papers 26821, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Mitra Akhtari & Natalie Bau & Jean-William Laliberté, 2024. "Affirmative Action and Precollege Human Capital," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 16(1), pages 1-32, January.
    4. Gandil, Mikkel Høst, 2021. "Substitution Effects in College Admissions," Memorandum 3/2021, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
    5. Zachary Bleemer, 2022. "Affirmative Action, Mismatch, and Economic Mobility after California’s Proposition 209," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 137(1), pages 115-160.
    6. Chris Belfield & Jack Britton & Franz Buscha & Lorraine Dearden & Matt Dickson & Luke Sibieta & Laura van der Erve & Anna Vignoles & Ian Walker & Yu Zhu, 2021. "How much does degree choice matter?," IFS Working Papers W21/24, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    7. Stuart Campbell & Lindsey Macmillan & Richard Murphy & Gill Wyness, 2022. "Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in Student to Degree Match," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 40(4), pages 807-850.
    8. Cecilia Machado & Germ'an Reyes & Evan Riehl, 2023. "The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University," Papers 2305.02513, arXiv.org, revised Jun 2023.
    9. Naven, Matthew & Whalen, Daniel, 2022. "The signaling value of university rankings: Evidence from top 14 law schools," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    10. Barbara Biasi & Song Ma, 2022. "The Education-Innovation Gap," CESifo Working Paper Series 9653, CESifo.
    11. Sara Goldrick‐Rab & Marshall Steinbaum, 2020. "Effective Treatment For The Student Debt Crisis Requires An Accurate Diagnosis," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(2), pages 548-550, March.
    12. Esteban M. Aucejo & Claudia Hupkau & Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, 2020. "Where versus What: College Value-Added and Returns to Field of Study in Further Education," CVER Research Papers 030, Centre for Vocational Education Research.
    13. Adam Looney & Constantine Yannelis, 2020. "How To Fix Federal Student Loan Programs," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(2), pages 540-547, March.
    14. Machado, Cecilia & Reyes, Germán & Riehl, Evan, 2022. "Alumni Job Networks at Elite Universities and the Efficacy of Affirmative Action," IZA Discussion Papers 15026, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    15. Cecilia Machado & Germán Reyes & Evan Riehl, 2023. "The Efficacy of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at Elite Universities," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0311, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
    16. Bleemer , Zachary & Mehta, Aashish, 2021. "College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification," University of California at Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education qt513249vg, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley.

  5. Marianne Bertrand & Magne Mogstad & Jack Mountjoy, 2019. "Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s “Reform 94”," NBER Working Papers 25679, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Sönke Hendrik Matthewes & Guglielmo Ventura, 2022. "On Track to Success? Returns to vocational education against different alternatives," CVER Research Papers 038, Centre for Vocational Education Research.
    2. Neyt, Brecht & Verhaest, Dieter & Baert, Stijn, 2018. "The Impact of Dual Apprenticeship Programs on Early Labour Market Outcomes: A Dynamic Approach," IZA Discussion Papers 12011, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Bennett, Patrick & Blundell, Richard & Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar, 2020. "A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms," Discussion Paper Series in Economics 14/2020, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics.
    4. Canaan, Serena, 2020. "The long-run effects of reducing early school tracking," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 187(C).
    5. Colin P. Green & Ole Henning Nyhus & Kari Vea Salvanes, 2023. "How does testing young children influence educational attainment and well-being?," CEPEO Working Paper Series 23-01, UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities, revised Jan 2023.
    6. Ollikainen, Jani-Petteri & Karhunen, Hannu, 2021. "A tale of two trade-offs: Effects of opening pathways from vocational to higher education," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 205(C).
    7. Patrick Bennett, 2021. "The Work-To-School Transition: Job Displacement and Skill Upgrading among Young High School Dropouts," CESifo Working Paper Series 9417, CESifo.
    8. Marcelo Bergolo & Guillermo Cruces, 2016. "The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance when Informal Employment is High," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0204, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
    9. Felipe Barrera-Osorio & Adriana D. Kugler & Mikko I. Silliman, 2020. "Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia," NBER Working Papers 27548, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. Stephen Machin & Sandra McNally & Camille Terrier & Guglielmo Ventura, 2020. "Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England," CVER Research Papers 031, Centre for Vocational Education Research.
    11. Patrick Bennett, 2022. "The Work-To-School Transitions:Job Displacement and Skill Upgrading among Young High School Dropouts," Working Papers 202205, University of Liverpool, Department of Economics.
    12. Dai, Li & Martins, Pedro S., 2024. "The Wage Effects of Polytechnic Degrees: Evidence from the 1999 China Higher Education Expansion," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1399, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    13. John List, 2020. "Non est Disputandum de Generalizability? A Glimpse into The External Validity Trial," Artefactual Field Experiments 00711, The Field Experiments Website.
    14. Sönke Hendrik Matthewes & Guglielmo Ventura, 2022. "On Track to Success? Returns to Vocational Education Against Different Alternatives," CEPA Discussion Papers 58, Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
    15. Bellés Obrero, Cristina & Duchini, Emma, 2020. "Who Benefits from General Knowledge?," IZA Discussion Papers 12995, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    16. Gordon B. Dahl & Dan-Olof Rooth & Anders Stenberg, 2020. "Long-Run Returns to Field Study in Secondary School," CESifo Working Paper Series 8462, CESifo.
    17. Berggren, Andrea & Jeppsson, Louise, 2021. "The Impact of Upper Secondary School Flexibility on Sorting and Educational Outcomes," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    18. Eleanor Wiske Dillon, 2020. "Comment on Education and Innovation," NBER Chapters, in: The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, pages 551-557, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    19. Thomas Buser & Noemi Peter & Stefan C. Wolter, 2022. "Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 25(5), pages 1299-1326, November.
    20. Gordon Dahl & Dan-Olof Rooth & Anders Stenberg, 2020. "High School Majors, Comparative (Dis)Advantage, and Future Earnings," NBER Working Papers 27524, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    21. Mikko Silliman & Hanna Virtanen, 2022. "Labor Market Returns to Vocational Secondary Education," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 14(1), pages 197-224, January.
    22. Bellés-Obrero, Cristina & Duchini, Emma, 2021. "Who benefits from general knowledge?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    23. Ariel J. Binder & Amanda Eng & Kendall Houghton & Andrew Foote, 2023. "The Gender Pay Gap and Its Determinants Across the Human Capital Distribution," Working Papers 23-31, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    24. Manudeep Bhuller & Philipp Eisenhauer & Moritz Mendel, 2022. "Sequential Choices, Option Values, and the Returns to Education," Papers 2205.05444, arXiv.org.
    25. Amy Finkelstein & Nathaniel Hendren, 2020. "Welfare Analysis Meets Causal Inference," NBER Working Papers 27640, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Jack Mountjoy, 2022. "Community Colleges and Upward Mobility," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 112(8), pages 2580-2630, August.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Marianne Bertrand & Magne Mogstad & Jack Mountjoy, 2021. "Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 94," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 39(4), pages 965-1010.
    See citations under working paper version above.Sorry, no citations of articles recorded.

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  1. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (4) 2019-04-01 2019-10-14 2021-09-27 2021-09-27. Author is listed
  2. NEP-EDU: Education (3) 2020-03-02 2021-09-27 2021-09-27. Author is listed
  3. NEP-EUR: Microeconomic European Issues (2) 2019-04-01 2019-10-14. Author is listed
  4. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (2) 2021-09-27 2021-09-27. Author is listed
  5. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (2) 2020-09-28 2021-03-01. Author is listed
  6. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (2) 2021-09-27 2021-09-27. Author is listed
  7. NEP-GEN: Gender (1) 2019-10-14

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