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Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders : an unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2018

distribution and hold a Social Science and Humanities specialization. …

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Much ado about nothing? : the wage penalty of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2017

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job-education mismatch among Ph.D. holders who completed their studies in Italy; a country where the number of new doctoral recipients has dramatically increased over recent years while...

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Analyzing wage differentials by fields of study : evidence from Turkey

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2017

This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...

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The wage effects of polytechnic degrees : evidence from the 1999 China higher education expansion

Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024

While the wage effects of vocational versus academic secondary education are well documented, there is little evidence on how polytechnics degrees pay off compared to university degrees. In this paper, we estimate the polytechnic degree wage effect in China, drawing on an unprecedented higher...

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Math exposure and university performance : causal evidence from twins

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Joxhe, Majlinda; … - 2025

family background. We find that attending a low-math high school reduces the likelihood of enrolling in STEM majors by 32 … traditionally low-math curricula, we show that the added math background further reduces STEM enrollment for treated students, while … boost STEM enrollment, it equips students with skills that help them improve their university outcomes. Compared with TFE …

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Effects of peers and rank on cognition, preferences, and personality

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2020

We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that...

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Returns to higher education subjects and tiers in China : evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei; Zhu, Yu - 2018

education sector have reduced returns to HE for all graduates, except for those studying LEM or Other non-STEM subjects at the …

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University selectivity and the relative returns to higher education : evidence from the UK

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2017

We study the labour market wage outcomes of university graduates by course (i.e. by subject and institution) in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS). We match this data to a measure of course "selectivity" (the mean standardised admission scores at the course level) using data on high...

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Returns to higher education : graduate and discipline premiums

Zhu, Yu; Xu, Lei - 2022

This chapter reviews and evaluates progress in recent research on the graduate premium in general as well as the differential graduate premiums by discipline, accounting for higher-education choice by individuals under substantial uncertainty. The contribution of this review, relative to...

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Returns to education in China : evidence from the great higher education expansion

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Wei, Yi; Zhu, Yu - 2022

China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999. Using the China Household Finance Survey, we show that the Great HE Expansion has exacerbated a large pre-existing urban-rural gap in educational attainment underpinned by the hukou...

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