While the wage effects of vocational versus academic secondary education are well documented, there is little evidence … wage effect in China, drawing on an unprecedented higher education expansion initially focused on universities and only …

China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999 … interpreted as the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) of education on earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE only … because of the Great HE Expansion. For the selected subsample of respondents with parental education information, we find that …

the selectivity of both the subject studied and of the Higher Education Institution (HEI) attended. Our results show that …

hukou status at age 12 and the mother's age and education to estimate the simultaneous choice of subject and tier of … prestige of higher education institutions (HEI) faced by university applicants. Using the doubly robust Inverse Probability … education sector have reduced returns to HE for all graduates, except for those studying LEM or Other non-STEM subjects at the …

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and …. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two stages of the same decision repeated over the years to step aside or leave … when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills …

compensate for their relative social disadvantage, while FiF women do not. We also estimate the returns to graduation for … potential FiF and non-FiF young people. We find that the wage returns to graduation are not lower among FiF graduates compared … for men and large and negative for women in general, irrespective of graduation. We provide some context, offer …

, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …

outcomes, especially if they work in the university sector. Acquiring education in the host country does not appear to …