born in 1970 to estimate hourly wage returns to a university degree. We analyse the extent of variations around average …

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 …

; e.g., over half of our sample attended a top 15 university, and over a third attended a top six university. We find … university …

; e.g., over half of our sample attended a top 15 university, and over a third attended a top six university. We find … university. …

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 …