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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002881213

Student achievement and university classes : effects of attendance, size, peers, and teachers

Martins, Pedro S. (contributor); Walker, Ian (contributor) - 2006

-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003504799

University selectivity and the graduate wage premium : evidence from the UK

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2017

scores of students admitted to these courses. Unlike earlier UK studies, we are able to consider the effect of differences in … relative wage outcomes across institutions*subjects is due to the quality of students that HEIs select. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607622

Differences by degree : evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which provide a sufficiently large sample to consider the effects of the subject studied, class of first...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153572

The impact of parental income and education on the health of their children

Doyle, Orla (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor); … - 2005

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious correlation rather than some causal mechanism. A...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280782

The impact of pre-school on adolescents' outcomes : evidence from a recent English cohort

Apps, Patricia; Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between attendance at nursery school and children's outcomes in adolescence. In particular, we are interested in child cognitive development at ages 11, 14 and 16, intentions towards tertiary education, economic activity in early adulthood, and in a group...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663948

The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort

Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem and work ethics at age 15, on test scores at age 16, and on subject...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370100

The effects of school class size on length of post-compulsory education : some cost-benefit analysis

Bingley, Paul (contributor); … - 2005

This paper is concerned with the relationship between class size and the student outcome length of time in post-compulsory schooling. Research on this topic has been problematic partly because omitted unobservables, like parents' incomes and education levels, are likely to be correlated with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002815792

The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - 2005

This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age. Least squares estimation reveals conventional...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002630733

Welfare-to-work, wages and wage growth

Lydon, Reamonn (contributor); Walker, Ian (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002043060