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Analysis links specific skills taught by US undergraduate degree courses with graduate earnings

Analysis links specific skills taught by US undergraduate degree courses with graduate earnings
2023-03-15
(Press-News.org) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282323

Article Title: Connecting higher education to workplace activities and earnings

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This research is supported in part by the University of Pittsburgh Pitt Momentum Fund and the Center for Research Computing. This work has been supported (in part) by # 2109-33808 from the Russell Sage Foundation. Any opinions expressed are those of the principal investigator(s) alone and should not be construed as representing the opinions of the Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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