Title | How much does degree choice matter? |
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Type | Journal article |
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Authors | Buscha, F., Britton, J., van der Erve, L., Belfied, C., Vignoles, A., Dickson, M., Walker, I., Dearden, L. and Sibieta, L. |
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Abstract | We use a large and novel administrative dataset to investigate returns to different university ‘degrees’ (subject-institution combinations) in the United Kingdom. Conditioning on a rich set of background characteristics, we find substantial variation in returns across degrees with similar selectivity levels, suggesting students’ degree choices matter a lot for later-life earnings. Returns increase with university selectivity much more at the top of the selectivity distribution than further down, and much more for some subjects than others. Returns are poorly correlated with observable degree characteristics other than selectivity, which could have important implications for student choices and the incentives of universities. |
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Article number | 102268 |
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Journal | Labour Economics |
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Journal citation | 79 |
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ISSN | 0927-5371 |
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Year | 2022 |
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Publisher | Elsevier |
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Publisher's version | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102268 |
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Published online | 03 Oct 2022 |
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