Audrey Light
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · The Ohio State University
Publications
62
Citations
2,325
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
35
Publishing since 1992
Audrey Light's research examines how education and labor markets connect, particularly how college major choices, coursework (including STEM classes), and personal traits like 'grit' relate to later earnings and educational attainment. She also studies broader labor economics topics such as gender wage gaps, job turnover, and self-employment versus business ownership.
Publication output has been irregular over the past decade, with a cluster of activity around 2017-2019 followed by sparser, intermittent output since 2020.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Explaining the Gap in Upward Transfer Rates Between Economically Advantaged and Disadvantaged Community College Students
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis · 2026
- Heterogeneity in STEM coursework within and across college majors: do college graduates’ earnings depend on major, STEM credits, or both?
Education Economics · 2024
- Should English majors take computer science courses? Labor market benefits of the occupational specificity of major and nonmajor college credits
Economics of Education Review · 2022
- Moving beyond the STEM/non-STEM dichotomy: wage benefits to increasing the STEM-intensities of college coursework and occupational requirements
Education Economics · 2019
- Predicting educational attainment: Does grit compensate for low levels of cognitive ability?
Learning and Individual Differences · 2019
- College major, college coursework, and post-college wages
Economics of Education Review · 2019
- Hitting the ground running: Computational physics education that prepares students for research
Works - Scholarship, Research, & Creative Expression (Swarthmore College) · 2019
- Business Ownership versus Self‐Employment
Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society · 2018
- Predicting Educational Attainment: Does Grit Compensate for Low Levels of Cognitive Ability?
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2017
- Predicting Educational Attainment: Does Grit Compensate for Low Levels of Cognitive Ability?
2017
- Predicting Educational Attainment: Does Grit Compensate for Low Levels of Cognitive Ability?
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2017
- Schooling on Wages
2016
- Gender Differences in Wages and Job Turnover Among Continuously Employed Workers
American Economic Review · 2016
- Business Ownership vs. Self-Employment
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2016
- Education Economics×2
- Economics of Education Review×2
- SSRN Electronic Journal×2
- Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society×1
- Learning and Individual Differences×1
- Seong Ji Jeong
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · The Ohio State University
- Miguel Sarzosa
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Purdue University West Lafayette
- John M. Barron
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Xiangquan Zeng
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Youngmin Park
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · The Ohio State University
This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.
Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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