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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 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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Ova and out : using twins to estimate the educational returns to attending a selective college
Smith, Jonathan - In: Economics of education review 36 (2013), pp. 166-180
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - In: Education economics 22 (2014) 5/6, pp. 471-483
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an experimental analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 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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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011 - This draft April 28 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386457
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125451
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Student Responsiveness to Earnings Data in the College Scorecard
Hurwitz, Michael - 2017
students responded to the release of the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard in September 2015. We find that data … increase in score sends. The impact is driven almost entirely by well-resourced high schools and students. We find little … evidence that the count or composition of enrolled students changed as a result of the Scorecard information shock with the …
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A New Measure of College Quality to Study the Effects of College Sector and Peers on Degree Attainment
Smith, Jonathan - 2015
Students starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students … of peer ability for most two-year and four-year colleges in the United States- the average PSAT of enrolled students. We … between students who start at two-year versus four-year institutions is explained by differences in peers, leaving room for …
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