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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...
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The return to college : selection bias and dropout risk
Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014
graduates and high school graduates. We calibrate the model to data for men born around 1960 and find that ability selection …
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition : evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Higher education finance depends on the public’s preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of...
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Trade-offs in choosing a college major
Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2023
documented and salient are the differences between genders, whereby women tend to be significantly underrepresented in some …
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Long-term effects of grade retention
Meulen, Simon ter - 2023
Grade retention offers students a chance to catch up with unmastered material but also leads to less labor-market experience by delaying graduation and labor-market entry. This is the first paper to quantify this trade-off, using an exit exam cutoff of Dutch academic secondary schools, where...
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University dropout problems and solutions
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2021
Frequent non-completion in optional education can be efficient if dropouts optimally exercise an option rationally foreseen by previous enrollment choices. This paper shows that in educational opportunities and groups of students where enrollment resolves more pronounced individual uncertainty...
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Male investment in schooling with frictional labour and marriage markets
Bonilla, Roberto; Kiraly, Francis - 2019
We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained … costly ex-ante investment in schooling. We establish the existence of market equilibria where a fraction of men get educated …
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An investment-and-marriage model with differential fecundity
Zhang, Hanzhe - 2019
theoretical explanation for why women attend college at a higher rate and earn a lower average income than men. Differential …I build an equilibrium investment-and-marriage model to explain stylized facts about education, income, and marriage …-specific relationships between age at marriage and income, as well as the evolving relationship between age at marriage and spousal income …
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How does for-profit college attendance affect student loans, defaults and labor market outcomes?
Armona, Luis; Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2019
For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...
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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...
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