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Returns to higher education and dropouts : a double machine learning approach
McNamara, Sarah - 2020
This paper provides estimates of the short-term individual returns to Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom, focusing on the effects of attending HE on the labour market outcomes for dropouts. Results show differential labour market outcomes for dropouts vs. individuals who have never...
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Earnings of university dropouts across Europe
Berlingieri, Francesco; Bolz, Theresa - 2020
This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less...
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The private and fiscal returns to higher education : a simulation approach for a young German cohort
Fischer, Benjamin; Hügle, Dominik - 2020
through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we … system and income pooling within couple households affect private returns and decompose the fiscal returns into its major …
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The returns to college(s): relative value-added and match effects in higher education
Mountjoy, Jack; Hickman, Brent R. - 2021
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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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Higher education, performance pay, and the polarization of wages
Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - 2021
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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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Unemployment and domestic violence : theory and evidence
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013
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Are women in science less ambitious than men? : experimental evidence on the role of gender and STEM in promotion applications
Süer, Müge - 2023
between men’s and women’s willingness to apply for promotion concerning female jobs in STEM or non-STEM fields. Third, we find … present in STEM field students when exposed to a male task. Specifi- cally, when an easier alternative is available, women are … less willing to apply for promotions concerning harder tasks than men. Second, there exists no significant difference …
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