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Measuring the Consumption Value of Higher Education
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2009
This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a particular type of higher education. We...
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The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education
Ehrmantraut, Laura - 2020
scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822459
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo - 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...
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The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2021
scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315250
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The Consumption Value of Higher Education
Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2021
The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual’s educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316279
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293120
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293817
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The expected (signaling) value of higher education
Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020
scenarios of leaving university with or without a degree certificate among a large and diverse sample of students at different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293840
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Stability of college rankings : a study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data
Gartell, Marie - 2009
The ranking of colleges varies both across methods and model specifications. Still, earnings equations tend to be … consistent with regard to which colleges that on average are found in the top and bottom half of the earnings distribution … new colleges. Although ranking by earnings equations provide some information about the relation to earnings, endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874153
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College quality and earnings in the Japanese labor market
Ono, Hiroshi - 2000 - Rev. March 11, 2003
and earnings in Japan remain few and riddled with shortcomings. This paper examines the returns to college education among … earnings. My findings confirm that college quality plays a crucial role in shaping both incentives and earnings in the Japanese … significant impact of tenure and firm-size on earnings, and the similarity in the earnings profiles between blue- and white …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009502712