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    "pk": 65414,
    "title": "GRADES VS UNIVERSITY PRESTIGE? A STUDY ON THE RETURNS TO EDUCATION",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This is a study determining which factor is a stronger return to education in a post-undergraduate setting: Grade Point Average (GPA) or the perceived “prestige” of the University attended. To classify what is considered “prestigious” and non- “prestigious”, I used rankings from the \nU.S News Best Colleges Rankings\n to classify the University of California campuses onto two separate tiers based on these rankings. I implement a survey on Amazon Mechanical Turk, in which subjects are asked whether they would prefer to hire a job candidate with a higher GPA from a lower tier university versus a job candidate with a lower GPA from a higher tier university. Using this survey data, I find that subjects have a strong preference for candidates with higher GPA. This preference still holds when including respondents that have hiring experience. The implications are that individuals will re-evaluate their preferences when applying to a university.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Returns to Education"
        },
        {
            "word": "GPA"
        },
        {
            "word": "University Prestige"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Social Sciences",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cs362gx",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jose",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "Rosa",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UC Merced",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2020-08-22T03:43:29Z",
    "date_accepted": "2020-08-22T03:43:29Z",
    "date_published": "2020-11-19T03:54:00Z",
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}