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Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting: the role of risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2006
This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267608
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Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting : the role of risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2006
more standard regressors. -- occupational choice ; sorting ; risk preferences ; GSOEP ; earnings risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253467
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Cross-Sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting : The Role of Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, … - 2021
This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318037
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515310
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Do they understand the benefits from education? : evidence on Dutch high school students’ earnings expectations
Mazza, Jacopo; Hartog, Joop - 2011
Using an internet collected dataset, we will provide some empirical evidence on the information that Dutch high school students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and high attrition, but we detect little systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306855
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Do They Understand the Benefits from Education? Evidence on Dutch High School Students' Earnings Expectations
Mazza, Jacopo - 2011
Using an internet collected dataset, we will provide some empirical evidence on the information that Dutch high school students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and high attrition, but we detect little systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124778
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Subject choice and earnings of UK graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2011
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper … investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean … wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244094
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Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2011
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper … investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean … wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126140
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969747
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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages
Dustmann, Christian - 2021
The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320788