Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - CESifo - 2004
The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess the variance in the rate of return by surveying … alternative options, choosing parameters on basis of the very limited evidence. The distribution of rates of return appears … positively skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient of variation of about 0.3, comparable …