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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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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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Social policy gone bad educationally : unintended peer effects from transferred students
Genakos, Christos; Kyrkopoulou, Eleni - 2022
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International student exchange and academic performance
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Joosten, Wytse; Toivanen, Otto - 2021 - This version: January 2021
significantly. We analyze how international student exchange affects students’ academic human capital. Using detailed student … find that, on average, exchange students lose 7% in terms of grades relative to their non-mobile peers, but less so in … Erasmus-facilitated exchange. Since students’ academic performance is an important factor in companies’ hiring decisions …
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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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The private and fiscal returns to higher education : a simulation approach for a young German cohort
Fischer, Benjamin; Hügle, Dominik - 2020
We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we build a dynamic microsimulation model that simulates...
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Higher education, performance pay, and the polarization of wages
Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - 2021
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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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The effects of a high school curriculum reform on university enrollment and the choice of college major
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students ́probability to enroll at university … requirements. Based on administrative data covering all students, the empirical analysis is carried out by applying a difference …
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Inequalities in student to course match : evidence from linked administrative data
Campbell, Stuart; Macmillan, Lindsey; Murphy, Richard; … - 2019
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