Shawn Martin

Fellows

Shawn Martin

Predoctoral Research Fellow

Shawn Martin is a PhD candidate in Economics and Public Policy and is on the job market in 2021-2022. Her job market paper studies the early career job changing behavior and earnings growth of college graduates, with a particular focus on contrasting…

Publication

Stange research quantifies “brain drain”

Sep 23, 2022

Many states invest heavily in their institutions of higher education only to see graduates leave for employment opportunities. To better understand that dynamic, Ford School Professor Kevin Stange and his colleagues developed a new measure of labor...

Stange research quantifies “brain drain”

News

Education Policy Initiative graduates spread their research skills across the country

Jun 24, 2022

Government consulting, examining the effects of free tuition, teaching sociology – all are activities that recent graduates who worked with the Education Policy Initiative (EPI) at the University of Michigan are pursuing, putting their research and...

Education Policy Initiative graduates spread their research skills across the country

Publication

Working paper assesses employer perception of college majors and skills

Feb 1, 2022

What are the skills that employers expect college graduates to bring to the job? A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper from Ford School professor Kevin Stange and doctoral candidate Shawn Martin, along with two other colleagues,...

Working paper assesses employer perception of college majors and skills

Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Occupation Choice - Worker Skills and Occupation Tasks

May 22, 2018, 8:30-10:00 am EDT

Weill Hall, Room 3240

The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.

EPI Working papers

College Majors and Skills: Evidence From the Universe of Online Job Ads

December 1, 2021

Steven Hemelt, Brad Hershbein, Shawn Martin, Kevin Stange

We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U.S. online job ads. Social and organizational skills are general in that they are sought by employers of almost all college majors,...

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