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Do They Understand the Benefits from Education? Evidence on Dutch High School Students' Earnings Expectations

Mazza, Jacopo - 2011

students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and …

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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China

Hartog, Joop - 2011

We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wage distributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing the Bachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue as predicted by theory. The dispersions in...

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Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?

Schweri, Juerg - 2015

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...

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A Risk Augmented Mincer Earnings Equation? Taking Stock

Hartog, Joop - 2009

We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty in the future wage to be earned after completing an education. There is wide empirical support for the predicted positive effect of wage variance and the negative effect of wage...

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Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?

Schweri, Juerg - 2009

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … risk as expected by students we find compensation at similar elasticities as observed in market data. The results are …

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