Similar Search Results

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele; Woolston, … - 2009

We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271281

The causal effect of education on wages revisited

Dickson, Matt - 2009

This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271310

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

Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

higher education. The expected return to education in terms of wages also affects educational decisions significantly. A …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297724

Förändrade arbetsmarknadsförhållanden för högre utbildade? En studie av forskarutbildade i Finland 1990 - 2004

Stén, Susanna - 2009

of postgraduate students who graduated every year increased at a fast pace. In this thesis doctorate and licentiate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273024

Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of "gap years" between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321632

Mind the gap?: Estimating the effects of postponing higher education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263972

Mind the gap? Estimating the effects of postponing higher education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317956

The supply of new engineers in Germany

Neugart, Michael - 2000

have backward looking expectations, in the other rational expectations on future wages. Only the model with backward … welfare improvements through the provision of information on future wages are considerable. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303967

The Return to a University Education in Great Britain

O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2004

charging students for the costs of their education. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261948