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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 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 College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318481
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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 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/10010277815
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Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2003
changes in the minimum school leaving age in the seventies. Using this idea we find that data in the UK appears to strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293827
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Does it pay to attend more selective high schools? : regression discontinuity evidence from China
Huang, Bin; Li, Bo; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2022
data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in … 2010 with high school student records. The standard admission channel is generally driven by merit subject to only nominal … announced school-specific admission thresholds in the city-wide High School Entrance Exam (HSEE) scores. Multiple-cutoff RDD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470186
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The returns to observable and unobservable skills over time : evidence from a panel of the population of Danish twins
Bingley, Paul; Christensen, Kaare; Walker, Ian - 2007
variation in education within twin pairs associated with being placed in different classes if they attended a small school in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869818
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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 college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 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/10010267506
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Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2002
changes in the minimum school leaving age in the seventies. Using this idea we find that data in the UK appears to strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269226