For decades college counselors have advised students with high academic ambitions that a prestigious graduate degree cancels out a less-than-prestigious undergraduate one, but new research by Joni Hersch, professor of law and economics, suggests that unfortunately this may not turn out to be true.
Professor Joni Hersch’s working paper “Catching Up is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium,” is featured in the New York Times‘s article ‘Why You Can’t Catch Up.’