Arbeitspapier

Returns to higher education and dropouts: A double machine learning approach

This paper provides estimates of the short-term individual returns to Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom, focusing on the effects of attending HE on the labour market outcomes for dropouts. Results show differential labour market outcomes for dropouts vs. individuals who have never attended HE, where outcomes are employment, wages and occupational status. I find that female dropouts, on average, have a higher occupational status than those who have never participated in HE, but do not experience a wage premium. Conversely, male dropouts experience a wage premium relative those who have never participated in HE, but the effect on occupational status is comparatively small. The evidence is mixed, however, as both male and female dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, though the effect is larger for males.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 20-084

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Returns to Education
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Thema
university education
higher education
graduation
dropout
returns to education

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
McNamara, Sarah
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2020

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • McNamara, Sarah
  • ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung

Entstanden

  • 2020

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