Community College Program Choices in the Wake of Local Job Losses
研究利用高中毕业生行政记录与当地大规模裁员和工厂关闭公告，发现当地就业下降会阻止学生进入相关社区大学专业，转而选择其他职业导向专业，且学生主要在技能相似的职业间转换。
Deciding which field to study is one of the most consequential decisions college students make, but most research on the topic focuses on students attending 4-year colleges. To understand how students attending community colleges make field-of-study decisions, I link administrative educational records of recent high school graduates with local mass layoff and plant-closing announcements. I find that declines in local employment deter students from entering closely related community college programs and instead induce them to enroll in other vocationally oriented programs. Students predominantly shift enrollment between programs that lead to occupations requiring similar skills.