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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770228
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The impact of parental income and education on the health of their children
Doyle, Orla (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor);  … - 2005
particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280782
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 110 (2008) 4, pp. 695-709
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003792111
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK college premiumʺ for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. The growth in relative labour demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870319
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The impact of parental income and education on child health : further evidence for England
Doyle, Orla (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003408507
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The impact of parental income and education on child health : further evidence for England
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - 2007
This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child … health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity of parental income … and education. Using an instrumental variables approach, our results suggest that the parental income and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799188
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2007
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806866
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The impact of parental income and education on the health of their children
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003293973
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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
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The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of Their Children
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm P.; Walker, Ian - 2021
particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318150