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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

The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of children

Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - 2013

We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour … Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to … income, we find no effect of maternal education. Under certain assumptions, paternal education remains significant (for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199676

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

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 …

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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

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

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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

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

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

The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-22

We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and paternal income using UK Labour … Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects of income, stronger effects of maternal education relative to … and income, the maternal education effect disappears, while paternal education remains significant but only for daughters …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221099