Jack Mountjoy

About

Jack Mountjoy is an Associate Professor of Economics (untenured) and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His primary research fields include Labor Economics, Economics of Education, and Applied Econometrics.

Research topics

• Economics
• Econometrics
• Political Science
• Statistics
• Demographic economics
• Medicine
• Medical education
• Mathematics
• Labour economics
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Community Colleges and Upward Mobility

  American Economic Review · 2022 · 103 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Two-year community colleges enroll nearly half of all first-time undergraduates in the United States, but to ambiguous effect: low persistence rates and the potential for diverting students from four-year institutions cast ambiguity over two-year colleges’ contributions to upward mobility. This paper develops a new instrumental variables approach to identifying causal effects along multiple treatment margins, and applies it to linked education and earnings registries to disentangle the net impac…

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• The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · 39 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020-09-01 · 30 citations

  reportOpen accessSenior author

  The decisions of judges, lenders, journal editors, and other gatekeepers often lead to significant disparities across affected groups. An important question is whether, and to what extent, these group-level disparities are driven by relevant differences in underlying individual characteristics, or by biased decision makers. The goal of our paper is to offer a methodological blueprint for empirical work that seeks to use outcome tests to detect bias. We show that models of decision making underpi…

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• The Returns to College(s): Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 26 citations

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  Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of relative value-added across colleges within student choice sets in producing these outcome disparities. Linking high school, college, and earnings registries spanning the state of Texas, we identify relative college value-added by comparing the outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions, as this approach strikingly balances observable stu…

• Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s “Reform 94”

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2019-03-01 · 22 citations

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  We study the impacts of a major reform to vocational secondary education that aimed to move beyond the trade-off between providing occupational skills and closing off academic opportunities. Norway...

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Frequent coauthors

• Brent Hickman

  Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

  69 shared

• Magne Mogstad

  Statistics Norway

  7 shared

• Marianne Bertrand

  University of Chicago

  6 shared

• Ivan A. Canay

  3 shared

• Patrick McAlvanah

  Federal Trade Commission

  1 shared

• Keith B. Anderson

  1 shared

• Robert Letzler

  United States Government Accountability Office

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  University of Chicago

Awards & honors

• Fellowship from the National Academy of Education and Spence…

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