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Heterogeneities in the returns to degrees: evidence from the British cohort study 1970
BRATTI, Massimiliano; NAYLOR, Robin; SMITH, Jeremy - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
born in 1970 to estimate hourly wage returns to a university degree. We analyse the extent of variations around average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007410
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Different returns to different degrees? Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970
Bratti, Massimiliano; Naylor, Robin; Smith, Jeremy - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2007
rationale for the latter element comes from evidence of a high private return to university undergraduate degrees. However, much … of this evidence pre-dates the rapid expansion in the graduate population. In the current paper, we use evidence from a … cohort of people born in 1970 to estimate hourly wage returns to a university degree. Among other results, we ?nd (i) that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005178318
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Efficient Supply of Human Capital : Role of College Major
Kam, Jihye - 2017
This study examines the extent to which changing the composition of college majors among working-age population may … affect the supply of human capital or effective labor supply. We use the South Korean setting, in which the population is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960282
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The Academic Origins of Economics Faculty
Jones, Todd; Sloan, Arielle - 2022
; e.g., over half of our sample attended a top 15 university, and over a third attended a top six university. We find … university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083949
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The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Fryer, Roland G.; Greenstone, Michael - 2007
Until the 1960s, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were practically the only institutions of higher learning open to Blacks in the US. Using nationally representative data files from 1970s and 1990s college attendees, we find that in the 1970s HBCU matriculation was associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026240
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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany : Level and Dispersion Effects
Lauer, Charlotte - 2008
This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables one to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070459
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301665
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The Diploma Mill : Impact of the Failing United States Economy on the Quality of Higher Education
McFayden, Elgie - 2009
In recent years, universities, particularly state funded institutions have seen revenues reduced by as much as 20 percent. This decline in revenues has forced colleges and universities of all sizes to adopt creative cost reduction and revenue generating practices. Colleges and universities have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766469
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A Value-Added Perspective on Higher Education
Simkovic, Michael - 2015
alternatives after considering heterogeneity in student populations. Conversely, education can fail even while producing attractive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016481
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The Return to a University Education in Great Britain
Sloane, Peter J.; O'Leary, Nigel C. - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, masters degrees and PhDs in Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject groups and more narrowly defined disciplines, distinguishing returns by gender and attempting to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319176