Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
December 15, 2017
Summary:
Recent research on economic returns to higher education in the United States suggests that those with the highest wage returns to a college degree are least likely to obtain one. We extend the study of heterogeneous returns to tertiary education across multiple institutional contexts, investigating how the relationship between wage returns and the propensity to complete a degree varies by the level of expansion, differentiation, and cost of higher education. Drawing on panel data and matching techniques, we compare findings from the US with selection into degree completion in Germany and the UK. Contrary to previous studies, we find little evidence for population level heterogeneity in economic returns to higher education.
Published in
Research in Higher Education
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 58 , p.843 -878
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11162-017-9451-5
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Notes
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