education in the four-year sector, is 12 percentage points more likely to earn a bachelor's degree, and eventually earns 5 … for the marginal students themselves, 10-12 percent for society (which must pay for the additional education), and 3 …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of … effects on natives' educational outcomes, such as graduation probability and degree classification. Large effects are found on … mild effects on education outcomes, we also find little effect of foreign peers affecting early labour market outcomes of …

Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs), lasting two or three years, capture about a quarter of higher education …. We exploit unique administrative data from Colombia on the universe of students, institutions, and programs to control … for about 60-70 percent of the variation in student-level graduation and labor market outcomes. Our estimates show that …

natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system and exploit the idiosyncratic variation of … effects on natives' educational outcomes, such as graduation probability and degree classification. Large effects are found on … mild effects on education outcomes, we also find little effect of foreign peers affecting early labour market outcomes of …

This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European … enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less than university graduates. Moreover, university dropouts do not appear to have … than those graduating from tertiary education. We document substantial heterogeneity across countries concerning whether …

This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European … enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less than university graduates. Moreover, university dropouts do not appear to have … than those graduating from tertiary education. We document substantial heterogeneity across countries concerning whether …

more lucrative careers, and overrepresented in others, such as Humanities and Education. Among potential explanations for …

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 …