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Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students
Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Redmond, Cathy - 2011
income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238540
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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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Estimating teacher impacts on student achievement : an experimental evaluation
Kane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793384
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Measuring test measurement error : a general approach
Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535000
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Overqualification, job dissatisfaction, and increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education
Green, Francis (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008
Increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education is found, using quantile regression. This trend is related to rising overqualification. We distinguish between and validate measures of Real and Formal overqualification, according to whether it is or is not accompanied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003644227
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Overqualification, job dissatisfaction and increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education
Green, Francis; Zhu, Yu - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008857333
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Functional literacy, educational attainment and earnings : a multi-country comparison.
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; Hogan, Vincent - 2003
In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings. We show that the estimated return to formal education is sensitive to the inclusion of literacy: excluding it biases the return to education in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008760236
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Education. earning and skills : a multi-country comparison
Denny, Kevin (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002023948