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大学水平人力资本的信号作用重要吗？——来自印度的实验研究
Does signaling college-level human capital matter? An experimental study in India
摘要
We measure the impact of two main signals of tertiary-level human capital accumulation, college quality and certification, on hiring in India. Using a correspondence experiment, we send 16,944 resumes to 1,412 job postings for recent engineering graduates at small and medium firms. We do not find evidence that either of the two signals that we consider have effects on callbacks separately. Specifically, the impact of having graduated from a mid-tier college ranked in the top 300 relative to an unranked college outside of the top 1000 is close to zero and precisely estimated, despite significant government investment in ranking colleges in India. There is also a precisely estimated null effect of scoring in the highest as opposed to the lowest quartile of a post-tertiary certification test that has been taken by millions of graduating students. Resumes with female names modestly benefit in this first stage of the hiring process.
中文摘要
我们衡量了高等教育人力资本积累的两个主要信号——大学质量和认证——对印度招聘的影响。通过一项通信实验，我们向1,412个针对近期工程毕业生的小型和中型企业职位发布发送了16,944份简历。我们没有发现我们所考虑的这两个信号对回电有任何单独影响的证据。具体而言，毕业于排名前300的中等层次大学相对于未进入前1000名排名的大学，其影响接近于零且估计精确，尽管印度政府在大学排名方面投入了大量资金。此外，在数百万毕业生参加的毕业后认证测试中，得分最高四分位数相对于最低四分位数的效应也被精确估计为零。带有女性名字的简历在招聘流程的这一初始阶段略有优势。