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Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates [US, 2010-2018]

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Johnathan Conzelmann, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Steven Hemelt, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Brad Hershbein, Upjohn Institute; Shawn Martin, University of Michigan; Andrew Simon, University of Chicago; Kevin Stange, University of Michigan

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Project Citation:

Conzelmann, Johnathan, Hemelt, Steven, Hershbein, Brad, Martin, Shawn, Simon, Andrew, and Stange, Kevin. Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates [US, 2010-2018]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-05-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E170381V3

Project Description

Summary: This document describes the data that accompany the paper “Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates." The data contain information about the geographic locations of graduates from 2,600 public and private four-year and two-year colleges and universities in the US obtained from publicly accessible institutional webpages from a popular professional networking site. The number of such graduates in each of 278 areas in the US for each institution is included, along with institutional identifiers and characteristics obtained from several other public sources. Various geographic crosswalks for linking the data with other geographic information are also included.

Funding Sources: National Science Foundation (1919387); Russell Sage Foundation (1811-09737); United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences (R305B150012)

Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 2010 – 2018

Collection Date(s): 2020 – 2021

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