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We exploit linked survey-administrative data from England to examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among graduate women, FiF graduates earn 8.3% less on average than graduate women whose parents...
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A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
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While gender differences in the decision of what to study at undergraduate level are much studied, there is relatively … Ireland to study these choices. We find systematic and substantial differences by gender in choice of graduate field, even … health programmes. When we explore the effect of these choices on early career gender gaps in earnings, we find that they …
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This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of foreign students within university-degree across four...
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socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education. …
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This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
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presence of gifted peers in all subjects regardless of their gender, whereas female students seem to benefit primarily from the …
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While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential 'first in family' or first-generation students make it to university and others do not. This paper looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the...
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Social mobility—the extent to which social and economic position in adulthood is facilitated or constrained by family origins—has taken an increasingly prominent role in public and policy discourse. Recent studies have documented that not only who your parents are, but also where you grow...
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This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany after World War II, which was implemented across federal states at different...
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