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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...
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students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …
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Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
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tuition fees, with contextual admission for disadvantaged students. An alternative admission channel admits lower …-ability students subject to substantial selection-fees, retained by the under-funded schools. We combine a cumulative multiple … insignificantly different from zero, for students who barely made it into the more selective school. However, the effect of attending …
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-in-Differences estimator which uses rural students to control for any common time trend. The 2SLS estimates of 17% and 12% for men and women … earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE as a result of the higher education expansion. …
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in other low- middle-income countries, especially in rural areas, it is important to increase primary and secondary level …
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In this paper, we apply Generalized Propensity Score Matching (GPSM) method, which deals with a continuous treatment variable, to estimate the returns to education in China from 2010 to 2017. Results are compared with OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation, as well as estimates from...
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This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating its effects on wages among Ph.D. holders. We analyze data collected in 2009 by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) through a large cross-sectional survey of Ph.D. recipients that allowed us...
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between parents and children: the former give their children better consumption opportunities in return for their presence at …
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scores of students admitted to these courses. Unlike earlier UK studies, we are able to consider the effect of differences in … relative wage outcomes across institutions*subjects is due to the quality of students that HEIs select. …
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