Academic education is generally rewarded by employers, but what happens to graduates if they are trained for two years …, we analyze labor market entries of individuals eligible for higher education, who either opted for newly introduced short … fixed-term employment at the bachelor’s and the master’s level. Overall, ‘general’ academic education provides advantages …

universities in the region, affects earnings one and ten years after graduation, controlling for the individual's SAT score. One … year after graduation, high SAT score students earn 12% less if their university's regional rank is worse by 35 places …, conditional on absolute university quality. This effect disappears ten years after graduation. The results suggest initial job …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … point to low returns to for-profit enrollment that have important implications for public investments in higher education as …

We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates … and high school cohorts and applying a difference-in-differences model, we find that the expansion of higher education in … broad economic benefits of higher education. …

We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates … and high school cohorts and applying a difference-in-differences model, we find that the expansion of higher education in … broad economic benefits of higher education …

compensate for their relative social disadvantage, while FiF women do not. We also estimate the returns to graduation for … potential FiF and non-FiF young people. We find that the wage returns to graduation are not lower among FiF graduates compared … for men and large and negative for women in general, irrespective of graduation. We provide some context, offer …

returns to graduation for potential FiF and non-FiF young people. We find that although the wage returns to graduation are … educated family are so large that they counteract the high returns of graduation. …