Does a Career in Science Pay? -- with Kadeem L. Noray

STEM classes, especially computer science and engineering, are increasingly popular on college campuses, often because they are seen as offering better employment prospects and higher earnings. What happens to this early STEM pay premium in the long run? Kadeem Noray from Harvard talks about his research with David J. Deming on how changing job skills affect the career dynamics of people majoring in STEM.

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Paper:

• "Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers" by David J. Deming & Kadeem Noray The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 135, Issue 4, November 2020, Pages 1965–2005, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaa021
• Kadeem's blog https://kadeemnoray.com/blog/