University selectivity and earnings: Evidence from UK data on applications and admissions to university
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.02.005
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.
References listed on IDEAS
- Chevalier, Arnaud & Conlon, Gavan, 2003.
"Does It Pay to Attend a Prestigious University?,"
IZA Discussion Papers
848, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Arnaud Chevalier & Gavan Conlon, 2003. "Does it pay to attend a prestigious university?," Working Papers 200320, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
- Chevalier, Arnaud & Conlon, Gavan, 2003. "Does it pay to attend a prestigious university?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 19477, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Arnaud Chevalier & Gavan Conlon, 2003. "Does it pay to attend a prestigious university?," CEE Discussion Papers 0033, Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE.
- Black, Dan A. & Smith, J.A.Jeffrey A., 2004.
"How robust is the evidence on the effects of college quality? Evidence from matching,"
Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 121(1-2), pages 99-124.
- Dan A. Black & Jeffrey Smith, 2003. "How Robust is the Evidence on the Effects of College Quality? Evidence From Matching," University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) Working Papers 20033, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP).
- Belfield, C. R. & Fielding, A., 2001. "Measuring the relationship between resources and outcomes in higher education in the UK," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 20(6), pages 589-602, December.
- Stacy Dale & Alan B. Krueger, "undated".
"Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data,"
Mathematica Policy Research Reports
d76ec29a0bbb4b1bb9d285b5a, Mathematica Policy Research.
- Stacy Dale & Alan B. Krueger, 2011. "Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data," Working Papers 1297, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section..
- Stacy Dale & Alan B. Krueger, 2011. "Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data," NBER Working Papers 17159, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Dale, Stacy & Krueger, Alan B., 2011. "Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data," IZA Discussion Papers 5533, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Behrman, Jere R & Rosenzweig, Mark R & Taubman, Paul, 1996. "College Choice and Wages: Estimates Using Data on Female Twins," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 78(4), pages 672-685, November.
- Monks, James, 2000. "The returns to individual and college characteristics: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 19(3), pages 279-289, June.
- Lang, Kevin & Siniver, Erez, 2011.
"Why is an elite undergraduate education valuable? Evidence from Israel,"
Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(6), pages 767-777.
- Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver, 2010. "Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2010-017, Boston University - Department of Economics.
- Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver, 2011. "Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel," NBER Working Papers 16730, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- repec:mpr:mprres:6922 is not listed on IDEAS
- Long, Mark C., 2008. "College quality and early adult outcomes," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 27(5), pages 588-602, October.
- Stacy Berg Dale & Alan B. Krueger, 2002.
"Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 117(4), pages 1491-1527.
- Stacy Berg Dale & Alan B. Krueger, "undated". "Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 4bafb729911e486baf90b34c9, Mathematica Policy Research.
- Stacy Berg Dale & Alan B. Krueger, 1998. "Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables," Working Papers 788, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section..
- Stacy Berg Dale & Alan B. Krueger, 1999. "Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables," NBER Working Papers 7322, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Loury, Linda Datcher & Garman, David, 1995. "College Selectivity and Earnings," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 13(2), pages 289-308, April.
- Dan Black & Jeffrey Smith & Kermit Daniel, 2005.
"College Quality and Wages in the United States,"
German Economic Review, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 6(3), pages 415-443, August.
- Black Dan & Daniel Kermit & Smith Jeffrey, 2005. "College Quality and Wages in the United States," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 6(3), pages 415-443, August.
- Lena Lindahl & Håkan Regnér, 2005.
"College Choice and Subsequent Earnings: Results Using Swedish Sibling Data,"
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 107(3), pages 437-457, September.
- Lindahl, Lena & Regnér, Håkan, 2003. "College choice and subsequent earnings. Results using Swedish sibling data," Working Paper Series 4/2003, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research.
- Dolton, P. J. & Vignoles, A., 2002. "Is a broader curriculum better?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 21(5), pages 415-429, October.
- Iftikhar Hussain & Sandra McNally & Shqiponja Telhaj, 2009.
"University Quality and Graduate Wages in the UK,"
CEE Discussion Papers
0099, Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE.
- Hussain, Iftikhar & McNally, Sandra & Telhaj, Shqiponja, 2009. "University quality and graduate wages in the UK," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 25486, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Hussain, Iftikhar & McNally, Sandra & Telhaj, Shqiponja, 2009. "University Quality and Graduate Wages in the UK," IZA Discussion Papers 4043, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Dominic J. Brewer & Eric R. Eide & Ronald G. Ehrenberg, 1999. "Does It Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Cross-Cohort Evidence on the Effects of College Type on Earnings," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 34(1), pages 104-123.
- Dan A. Black & Jeffrey A. Smith, 2006. "Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 24(3), pages 701-728, July.
- Berhman, J-R & Kletzer, L & Constantine, J & McPherson, M & Schapiro, M-O, 1996. "The Impact of College Quality on Wages : Are There Differences Among Demographic Groups?," Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education DP-38, Department of Economics, Williams College.
- Mark Hoekstra, 2009. "The Effect of Attending the Flagship State University on Earnings: A Discontinuity-Based Approach," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 91(4), pages 717-724, November.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Walker, Ian & Zhu, Yu, 2018.
"University selectivity and the relative returns to higher education: Evidence from the UK,"
Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 230-249.
- Walker, Ian & Zhu, Yu, 2017. "University Selectivity and the Relative Returns to Higher Education: Evidence from the UK," GLO Discussion Paper Series 133, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
- Jack Britton & Monica Costa Dias & David Goll, 2023. "Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? Evidence from an empirical matching model," IFS Working Papers W23/06, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
- Ivan Anic & Vladimir Bozin & Branko Uroševic, 2016. "A Signaling Model of University Selection," CESifo Working Paper Series 5741, CESifo.
- Cunha, Jesse M. & Miller, Trey, 2014. "Measuring value-added in higher education: Possibilities and limitations in the use of administrative data," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 64-77.
- Joanne Lindley & Stephen Machin, 2016. "The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 83(330), pages 281-306, April.
- Drydakis, Nick, 2016.
"The effect of university attended on graduates’ labour market prospects: A field study of Great Britain,"
Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 192-208.
- Drydakis, Nick, 2016. "The Effect of University Attended on Graduates' Labour Market Prospects: A Field Study of Great Britain," IZA Discussion Papers 9826, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Yanming Li & Kangyin Lu & Kaiyuan Wang, 2021. "Inequality in the Initial Wage of College Graduates at the College-Level Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-15, December.
- Milla, Joniada, 2017. "The Context-Bound University Selectivity Premium," IZA Discussion Papers 11025, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Gibbons, Stephen & Neumayer, Eric & Perkins, Richard, 2015.
"Student satisfaction, league tables and university applications: Evidence from Britain,"
Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 148-164.
- Gibbons, Stephen & Neumayer, Eric & Perkins, Richard, 2015. "Student satisfaction, league tables and university applications: evidence from Britain," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 62875, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Esteban M. Aucejo & Claudia Hupkau & Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, 2020. "Where versus What: College Value-Added and Returns to Field of Study in Further Education," CVER Research Papers 030, Centre for Vocational Education Research.
- Alex Rees-Jones & Ran Shorrer & Chloe J. Tergiman, 2020. "Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching," NBER Working Papers 26734, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Kang, Lili & Peng, Fei & Zhu, Yu, 2018.
"Returns to higher education subjects and tiers in China - Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies,"
GLO Discussion Paper Series
238, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
- Kang, Lili & Peng, Fei & Zhu, Yu, 2019. "Returns to Higher Education Subjects and Tiers in China: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies," IZA Discussion Papers 12071, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Britton, Jack & van der Erve, Laura & Belfield, Chris & Vignoles, Anna & Dickson, Matt & Zhu, Yu & Walker, Ian & Dearden, Lorraine & Sibieta, Luke & Buscha, Franz, 2022.
"How much does degree choice matter?,"
Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
- Chris Belfield & Jack Britton & Franz Buscha & Lorraine Dearden & Matt Dickson & Luke Sibieta & Laura van der Erve & Anna Vignoles & Ian Walker & Yu Zhu, 2021. "How much does degree choice matter?," IFS Working Papers W21/24, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
- Costas-Fernández, Julián & Morando, Greta & Holford, Angus, 2023. "The effect of foreign students in higher education on native students’ outcomes," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Milla, Joniada, 2017. "The Context-Bound University Selectivity Premium," IZA Discussion Papers 11025, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Hinrichs, Peter, 2014. "Affirmative action bans and college graduation rates," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 43-52.
- Smith, Jonathan, 2013. "Ova and out: Using twins to estimate the educational returns to attending a selective college," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 166-180.
- Suhonen, Tuomo, 2013. "Are there returns from university location in a state-funded university system?," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 43(3), pages 465-478.
- Leah Achdut & Elad Gutman & Idan Lipiner & Inbal Maayan & Noam Zussman, 2018. "The Wage Premium on Higher Education: Universities and Colleges," Bank of Israel Working Papers 2018.13, Bank of Israel.
- Eliasson, Kent, 2006. "The Role of Ability in Estimating the Returns to College Choice: New Swedish Evidence," Umeå Economic Studies 691, Umeå University, Department of Economics.
- Eliasson, Kent, 2006. "How Robust is the Evidence on the Returns to College Choice? Results Using Swedish Administrative Data," Umeå Economic Studies 692, Umeå University, Department of Economics.
- Cohodes, Sarah & Goodman, Joshua, 2012.
"First Degree Earns: The Impact of College Quality on College Completion Rates,"
Working Paper Series
rwp12-033, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- Cohodes, Sarah Rose & Goodman, Joshua Samuel, 2012. "First Degree Earns: The Impact of College Quality on College Completion Rates," Scholarly Articles 9396433, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
- Eliasson, Kent, 2006. "College Choice And Earnings Among University Graduates In Sweden," Umeå Economic Studies 693, Umeå University, Department of Economics.
- Tuomo Suhonen, 2014. "Quality of higher education and earnings: evidence from Finland using field-of-study-level quality measures," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(1), pages 22-44, January.
- Long, Mark C., 2010. "Changes in the returns to education and college quality," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 338-347, June.
- Gartell, Marie, 2009. "Stability of college rankings - A study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data," Working Paper Series 2009:19, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
- Zara Daghbashyan & Björn Hårsman, 2014.
"University choice and entrepreneurship,"
Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 42(4), pages 729-746, April.
- Daghbashyan, Zara & Hårsman, Björn, 2012. "University choice and entrepreneurship," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 292, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.
- Justine S. Hastings & Christopher A. Neilson & Seth D. Zimmerman, 2013.
"Are Some Degrees Worth More than Others? Evidence from college admission cutoffs in Chile,"
NBER Working Papers
19241, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Justine S. Hastings & Christopher A. Neilson & Seth D. Zimmerman, 2014. "Are Some Degrees Worth More than Others? Evidence from College Admission Cutoffs in Chile," Working Papers 2014-5, Princeton University. Economics Department..
- Philip R P Coelho & Tung Liu, 2017. "The Returns to College Education — An Analysis with College-Level Data," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 43(4), pages 604-620, September.
- Sarah R. Cohodes & Joshua S. Goodman, 2014.
"Merit Aid, College Quality, and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy,"
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 6(4), pages 251-285, October.
- Sarah Cohodes & Joshua Goodman, "undated". "Merit Aid, College Quality and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy," Working Paper 144201, Harvard University OpenScholar.
- Cohodes, Sarah & Goodman, Joshua, 2013. "Merit Aid, College Quality and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy," Working Paper Series rwp13-005, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- Shomon Shamsuddin, 2016. "Berkeley or Bust? Estimating the Causal Effect of College Selectivity on Bachelor’s Degree Completion," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 57(7), pages 795-822, November.
- Li, Hongbin & Meng, Lingsheng & Shi, Xinzheng & Wu, Binzhen, 2012. "Does attending elite colleges pay in China?," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(1), pages 78-88.
- Stacy Dale & Alan B. Krueger, "undated".
"Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data,"
Mathematica Policy Research Reports
d76ec29a0bbb4b1bb9d285b5a, Mathematica Policy Research.
- Stacy Dale & Alan B. Krueger, 2011. "Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data," Working Papers 1297, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section..
- Stacy Dale & Alan B. Krueger, 2011. "Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data," NBER Working Papers 17159, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Dale, Stacy & Krueger, Alan B., 2011. "Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data," IZA Discussion Papers 5533, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Hersch, Joni, 2019.
"Catching Up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium,"
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 10(3), pages 503-553, October.
- Hersch, Joni, 2019. "Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium," IZA Discussion Papers 12608, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
More about this item
Keywords
University selectivity; Rate of return;JEL classification:
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:31:y:2012:i:3:p:96-107. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/econedurev .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.