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The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited
Dickson, Matthew - 2009
variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age … instruments. I find that the instrument constructed using early smoking behaviour is valid as well as being strong, and argue that … estimates of 12.9% (early smoking), 10.2% (RoSLA) and 12.5% (both instruments) …
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The causal effect of education on wages revisited
Dickson, Matt - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894910
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The causal effect of education on wages revisited
Dickson, Matt - In: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics 75 (2013) 4, pp. 477-498
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The causal effect of education on wages revisited
Dickson, Matt - 2009
variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age … instruments. I find that the instrument constructed using early smoking behaviour is valid as well as being strong, and argue that … estimates of 12.9% (early smoking), 10.2% (RoSLA) and 12.5% (both instruments). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271310
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 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/10003770228
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2005
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree dropped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002881213
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The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2021
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree - the "college premium." The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled - yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318481
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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 premiumʺ 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. The growth in relative labour demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870319
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The Returns to Four-Year College for Academically Marginal Students
Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2011
I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In addition, I develop a theoretical model of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118268
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Late Bloomers : The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life
Bárány, Zsófia L.; Buchinsky, Moshe; Corblet, Pauline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
It is generally agreed upon that most individuals who acquire a college degree do so in their early 20s. Despite this consensus, we show that in the US from the 1930 birth cohort onwards a large fraction - around 20% - of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30. We explore the...
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