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Earnings risk and demand for higher education

Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002

We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...

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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …

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Understanding gender differences in stem : evidence from college applications

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019

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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

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Choosing differently? : college application behavior and the persistence of educational advantage

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2020

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Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? : evidence from healthcare

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 141 (2017), pp. 135-150

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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China

Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - In: Education economics 22 (2014) 5/6, pp. 471-483

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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China

Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011 - This draft April 28 2011

We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...

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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … risk as expected by students we find compensation at similar elasticities as observed in market data. The results are …

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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an experimental analysis for China

Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011

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