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Bingley, Paul; Christensen, Kaare; Walker, Ian - 2007

This paper provides estimates of the private financial return to education based on large samples of monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins which we obtain from Danish population registers. Our estimation exploits the fact that our data is a long panel. We show that the rising inequality,...

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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...

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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

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...

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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...

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Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals

Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Kang, Songman - 2010

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Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals

Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Kang, Songman - 2010

The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students … survey students about what their expected earnings would be both in the major they have chosen and in counterfactual majors …. We also elicit students' subjective assessments of their abilities in chosen and counterfactual majors. We estimate a …

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Affirmative action and university fit : evidence from proposition 209

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; … - 2013

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Affirmative action and the quality-fit tradeoff

Arcidiacono, Peter; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2015

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Affirmative action and university fit : evidence from Proposition 209

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; … - 2012

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