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Student Earnings Expectations : Heterogeneity or Noise?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2016

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings. Direct surveys suggest much ignorance and fuzziness. We use...

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Skills, Signals, and Employability : An Experimental Investigation

Piopiunik, Marc - 2018

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...

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Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrollment : The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns

Boneva, Teodora - 2018

To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students' beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...

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Mincer Earnings Functions for the Netherlands 1962-2012

Hartog, Joop - 2016

We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...

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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Skans, Oskar Nordström - CESifo - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

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College Expansion and Curriculum Choice

Kaganovich, Michael; Su, Xuejuan - CESifo - 2015

This paper analyzes the impact of college enrollment expansion on student academic achievements and labor market outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges...

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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...

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The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment

Lochner, Lance; Stinebrickner, Todd; Suleymanoglu, Utku - CESifo - 2013

Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich; Zimmermann, Christian - CESifo - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice

Anelli, Massimo - 2017

Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same …-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points–equivalent to 3.7 native …

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