Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes

Eine Top-Uni für eine Top-Karriere: Wer profitiert?

Die Wirtschaft im Wandel ◽

10.1007/978-3-658-31735-5_2 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 17-21

Author(s):

Thomas Schiller

Keyword(s):

Upward Mobility ◽

American Economic Review ◽

Top Incomes ◽

Elite Colleges

ZusammenfassungDas Renommee der Eliteuniversitäten ist enorm. Ihre Alumni schaffen es in die Top 1 % der Einkommen und dominieren das Who is Who in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Doch wer profitiert von der Eliteausbildung? Ist Talent entscheidend, oder die Abstammung von einem einflussreichen Elternhaus? Fördern die Eliteuniversitäten die Chancengleichheit und den sozialen Aufstieg, oder tragen sie gar zur Zementierung der Ungleichheit bei? Es scheint, dass die Bedeutung von Beziehungen für die Karriere nicht in allen Studiengängen gleich wichtig ist. Der Erfolg einer Management-Karriere hängt scheinbar mehr von Beziehungen ab als in anderen Studienrichtungen. Die Pflege des Beziehungsnetzes profitiert von einem vorteilhaften sozialen Hintergrund und geht von ganz alleine. Umso grösser ist die Herausforderung der Politik, diesen Vorteil zu kompensieren und auf Chancengleichheit hinzuwirken, und der Eliteuniversitäten, ihr Beziehungsnetzwerk allen zu öffnen.Zimmerman, Setz D. (2019), Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes, American Economic Review 109, 1–47.

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Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.20171019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 109 (1) ◽

pp. 1-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Seth D. Zimmerman

Keyword(s):

Leadership Teams ◽

Male Students ◽

Degree Programs ◽

Leadership Positions ◽

Publicly Traded ◽

Difference In Differences ◽

Top Incomes ◽

Admissions Test ◽

High Tuition ◽

Elite Colleges

This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged groups reach top positions in the economy. I combine administrative data on income and leadership teams at publicly traded firms with a regression discontinuity design based on admissions rules at elite business-focused degree programs in Chile. The 1.8 percent of college students admitted to these programs account for 41 percent of leadership positions and 39 percent of top 0.1 percent incomes. Admission raises the number of leadership positions students hold by 44 percent and their probability of attaining a top 0.1 percent income by 51 percent. However, these gains are driven by male applicants from high-tuition private high schools, with zero effects for female students or students from other school types with similar admissions test scores. Admissions effects are equal to 38 percent of the gap in rates of top attainment by gender and 54 percent of the gap by high school background for male students. A difference-in-differences analysis of the rates at which pairs of students lead the same firms suggests that peer ties formed between college classmates from similar backgrounds may play an important role in driving the observed effects. (JEL I23, I26, J16, O15)

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Urban Headway and Upward Mobility in India

10.1017/9781108867009 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Arup Mitra

Keyword(s):

Upward Mobility

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Glass Ceiling: Women's Perceived and Actual Upward Mobility in Academia

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e621162010-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Kathleen E. Gathercoal ◽

Rachel E. Mueller ◽

Courtney McConnell ◽

Rachael Kerns ◽

Kimberly A. Moore ◽

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Keyword(s):

Glass Ceiling ◽

Upward Mobility

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Upward Mobility and Class Values

Social Problems ◽

10.1525/sp.1964.11.4.03a00050 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 359-371

Author(s):

Ralph H. Turner

Keyword(s):

Upward Mobility

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Moving Up without Losing Your Way

10.23943/princeton/9780691179230.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Morton

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

College Students ◽

Social Mobility ◽

Low Income ◽

Upward Mobility ◽

Ethical Dilemmas ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

College Experience ◽

Career Opportunities ◽

Community Finding

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, this book looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity—faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society. The book reframes the college experience, factoring in not just educational and career opportunities but also essential relationships with family, friends, and community. Finding that student strivers tend to give up the latter for the former, negating their sense of self, the book seeks to reverse this course. It urges educators to empower students with a new narrative of upward mobility—one that honestly situates ethical costs in historical, social, and economic contexts and that allows students to make informed decisions for themselves. The book paves a hopeful road so that students might achieve social mobility while retaining their best selves.

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