using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces …

relation between university attended and employment prospects. …

individuals who are "first in family" (FiF), those who achieve a university degree, but whose (step) parents did not. We provide … two-thirds of all university graduates. Comparing individuals with no parental higher education we show that ethnic … and become a FiF. Once at university, those who are FiF are more likely to study Law, Economics and Management and less …

university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does …. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two stages of the same decision repeated over the years to step aside or leave … bargaining approach, the decision to delay graduation or dropout from university is related to bargaining within the family …

We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS …