Does It Pay to Attend a Prestigious University?

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This paper provides evidence of heterogeneity in the returns to higher education in the UK. Attending the most prestigious universities leads to a wage premium of up to 6% for males. The rise in participation in higher education also led to a greater sorting of students and an increase in the returns to quality. These results somehow justify the recent introduction of top-up fees. Additionally, identification strategy matters and OLS estimates may be severely biased. However, our estimates, based on propensity score matching, are imprecise due to the thinness of the common support.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 848

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Educational Finance; Financial Aid ; Education and Research Institutions: General
• Thema: higher education quality ; tuition fees ; Bildungsertrag ; Studium ; Akademische Berufe ; Prestige ; Studienfinanzierung ; Schätzung ; Großbritannien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Chevalier, Arnaud ; Conlon, Gavan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2003

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20090
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ