Not All University Degrees Yield the Same Return: Private and Social Returns to Higher Education for Males in Spain

In this paper we use micro data from the Spanish Family Expenditure Survey for 1990 to estimate, for the first time, the private and social rates of return of different university degrees in Spain. We compute internal rates of return and include investment on higher education financed by the public purse to estimate social rates of return. Our main finding is that, as presumed, there is large heterogeneity in rates of return amongst different university

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Year of publication:	1999-04
Authors:	Morilla, Xavier Ramos ; Bara, Josep Lluís Raymond ; Alonso, Josep Oliver
Institutions:	Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	24 pages long
Classification:	I21 - Analysis of Education ; J23 - Employment Determination; Job Creation; Demand for Labor; Self-Employment
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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