This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence … stages of higher education. Our findings indicate substantial perceived returns to higher education. Moreover, by exploiting … education premia as well as evidence consistent with employer learning. …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of … effects on natives' educational outcomes, such as graduation probability and degree classification. Large effects are found on … mild effects on education outcomes, we also find little effect of foreign peers affecting early labour market outcomes of …

universities in the region, affects earnings one and ten years after graduation, controlling for the individual's SAT score. One … year after graduation, high SAT score students earn 12% less if their university's regional rank is worse by 35 places …, conditional on absolute university quality. This effect disappears ten years after graduation. The results suggest initial job …

Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate education within otherwise …

found that opening a local university increased the likelihood of obtaining higher education degrees and had long … marriage. The paper highlights the importance of increasing access to higher education for positive social and labor outcomes …

little attention paid to subsequent study decisions of graduates. Given the increased importance of graduate education in …

Despite worldwide expansion of higher education, the impact of higher education institutions on local economic activity …

In the last two decades, access to higher education has increased substantially in Latin America. The quantity of new … programs available has created concerns about education quality, which has implications for the labor market. We use rich … enrolled in different 'types' of higher education, and to explore the returns to higher education before and during the COVID …