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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770228
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK college premiumʺ for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. The growth in relative labour demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870319
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2007
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree – the “college premium”. The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled – yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806866
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2005
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree dropped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002881213
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The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2021
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree - the "college premium." The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled - yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318481
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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement
Hoffmann, Florian - 2006
This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466065
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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement
Hoffman, Florian - 2007
This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778252
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Child Support and Educational Outcomes : Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2019
thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … least 10 times as large as that associated with variations in other sources of total household net income for two key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207399
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Field of study, earnings, and self-selection
Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - 2014 - This version: December 2014
Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468732
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Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection
Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2015
Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031013