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Evidence on the returns to secondary vocational education
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“They found that students in the technical track are not more likely to have higher incomes if they had chosen another track.”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer, 2007
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“Those individuals in a general track were more likely to have benefited from a technical track.”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer, 2007
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“After all, it is just as plausible that these students earn less because of unobservable characteristics that are correlated with track choice as it is that vocational education is somehow diminishing their earnings potential.”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer, 2007
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“On the contrary, Meer (2007) found evidence that the college preparatory track yielded higher earnings.”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer (2007)
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“Simply because those who are currently on the academic or general track earn more than vocational students does not mean that shifting vocational students to those tracks would increase their income (p.560).”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer, 2007
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“Meer ( 2007) contested the research that demonstrated lower earnings potential for CTE students because of the contextual factors that are omitted from the findings.”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer, 2007
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“Further, those individuals that were in a technical or an academic track benefited greatly from their choices in terms of earnings potential.”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer, 2007
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“The researcher concluded that CTE has been wrongly stigmatized as an inferior curriculum track and encourages CTE constituents to prepare its students for the current high-technology workforce.”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer, 2007
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“In addition this finding is consistent with several research studies regarding labor market outcomes of CTE track students (Meer, 2007).”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer, 2007
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“Prior research on labor market outcomes (e.g., occupational earnings) of the CTE track has resulted in inconclusive findings (Bishop & Mane, 2004;Mane, 1999;Meer, 2007).”
From The Relationship of High School Curriculum Tracks to Degree Attainment and Occupational Earnings (2009) · cites this paper as Meer, 2007
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Metadata
- Authors
- Meer, J.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Meer, Jonathan
- ORCID
- Meer, Jonathan
- Venue
- Economics of Education Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-10
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 559-573
- ISSN
- 0272-7757 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2004574603
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 11.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Economics of Education Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Education › Education Systems and Policy
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Keywords
- secondary vocational education, educational tracking, returns to education, student income, selection bias, comparative advantage, high school students, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988
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