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Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2010
We argue that once we take into account the students' rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the … possess private information about students' post-enrollment treatment effects. This necessary condition for mismatch provides … private information that is a statistically significant predictor of the students' post-enrollment academic performance. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757541
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The Analysis of Field Choice in College and Graduate School : Determinants and Wage Effects
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2015
As the workforce has become more educated, educational decisions are no longer just about whether to acquire more, but rather what type of education to pursue. In college, individuals somewhat specialize through their choice of college major. Further specialization occurs in graduate school....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013186
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Dynamics of returns to vocational education in China : 2010-2017
Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data (2010-2017) to analyse the returns to different education qualifications. We additionally compare the returns to vocational education with returns to academic education, at both the upper secondary level and the tertiary level....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803545
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Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations Using Subjective Expectations Data
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2014
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044975
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Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations Using Subjective Expectations Data
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2014
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045057
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Does Vocational Education Pay Better, or Worse, than Academic Education?
Pastore, Francesco; Chen, Jie - 2021
In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data to analyse the returns to upper secondary vocational education in China. To address possible endogeneity of vocational training due to omitted heterogeneity, we construct a novel instrumental variable using the proportion of tertiary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223781
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"Study Hard and Make Progress Every Day" : Updates on Returns to Education in China
Pastore, Francesco; Chen, Jie - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244264
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Private Returns to Human Capital Over Transition : A Case Study of Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - 2021
The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the rate of return to education is low and the earnings profile by work experience flat, like they supposedly were under central-planning. However, the first available estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318884
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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - 2021
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319275
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Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2009
We argue that once we take into account the students' rational enrollment decisions, mismatch in the sense that the … possess private information about students' post-enrollment treatment effects. This necessary condition for mismatch provides … private information that is a statistically significant predictor of the students' post-enrollment academic performance. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463762