expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing … healthcare trainees in their third year of training. The main result is that those trainees (in upper-secondary education) who … expected a greater return from nursing college (tertiary education) were more likely to enroll in nursing college later on …

education and the impact of their ex ante wage expectations on college enrolment. The analysis contributes to a small developing … literature that uses subjective wage expectation data to predict education choice. We surveyed a full cohort of healthcare …

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …

considerable difficulties in the Dutch labour market. The most remarkable conclusion is the irrelevance of education for socio …

skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …