"in most fields the most important thing was just to get a degree regardless of what course your career took afterwards. This supports your signalling thesis."
It does not directly support the signaling thesis. Another compatible thesis is that you are learning to solve complex problems and have work ethic doing your degree and those skills transfer to other areas.
Yes, the fact that the relevant skills being rewarded by employers are more generic doesn't necessarily imply that they must have been learned prior to going to college. On the other hand, Bryan's thesis would be in trouble if the income boost required matching one's field-of-study in college with a particular career track afterwards.
"By far the most important source of racial disparities in this dataset was the inability of the K-12 public schools to prepare black and Latino kids for meeting UC's High School subject requirements"
So we need to fight systemic racism in K-12. How should we go about fixing these systemic inequities?
Heckman's data showed that a persistent and effectively permanent delta occured by age 2 between the children of college educated mothers and high school dropout mothers.
"in most fields the most important thing was just to get a degree regardless of what course your career took afterwards. This supports your signalling thesis."
It does not directly support the signaling thesis. Another compatible thesis is that you are learning to solve complex problems and have work ethic doing your degree and those skills transfer to other areas.
Yes, the fact that the relevant skills being rewarded by employers are more generic doesn't necessarily imply that they must have been learned prior to going to college. On the other hand, Bryan's thesis would be in trouble if the income boost required matching one's field-of-study in college with a particular career track afterwards.
Great post. Thanks for introducing us to Vincent Cook. His essay “Tariffs Won’t Reindustrialize America” is a must read.
"By far the most important source of racial disparities in this dataset was the inability of the K-12 public schools to prepare black and Latino kids for meeting UC's High School subject requirements"
So we need to fight systemic racism in K-12. How should we go about fixing these systemic inequities?
WOW indeed!
One thing that should be clarified here is that UCOP serves the entire 10-campus UC system, not just UC Berkeley.
Yup, 3rd grade. It's the vicious racism of those nice white lady K-2 teachers. Something MUST be done!
Heckman's data showed that a persistent and effectively permanent delta occured by age 2 between the children of college educated mothers and high school dropout mothers.
Um, add pre-school racists to the K-2 teachers. And some of those college-educated mothers are surely hiding some VERY nasty ideas about people...
You mean that mothers may thing that their children are smarter and more gifted than many of the other children? That is common.
And sometimes it is actually true.
You expect it in many cases. The heritibility of intelligence, concientiousness, and the like is quite high.
From Email #1:
"UC Provost...his opinion was that racial disparities really show up in a big way around the 3rd grade..."
Thus my reasoning that the disparity (obviously caused by racism) had to have been the fault of K-2 teachers.
From you:
"...delta occurred by age 2 between the children of college-educated mothers and [those of] high school dropout mothers."
Thus my reasoning that the "delta" (obviously caused by racism) had to have been the fault of pre-school teachers and/or the educated mothers.
Where else could racial disparities and deltas come from...?
We both know the answer to that question, but stating it is not to be done.
Wow!