Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates
By A. Chevalier. Social Science Research Network, 2011
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Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean wages of graduates from different subjects and a considerably larger one within subject with individuals with the most favourable unobserved characteristics obtaining wages almost twice as large as those with the worst. Moreover, gender differences in wages within subjects are also large. We then simulate a graduate tax to calculate a willingness to pay – in form of tuition fees – to capture these subject wage premia.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies
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- Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and Where We Are Going Some Brief Pointers (2011, unknown): “Other work focuses on specific 'ranges' of the education distribution such as higher education including, inter alia, Walker and Zhu (2008, 2011), Green and Zhu (2010) and Chevalier (2011).”
- The Analysis of Field Choice in College and Graduate School: Determinants and Wage Effects (2015, unknown): “Chevalier (2011) finds that for women education pays well relative to”
- An Unnecessary KIS? The UK’s Key Information Set, was it Really needed and What was its Real Purpose? (2020, background): “Chevalier’s research showed that even once high-earning medical graduates had been removed from the Long-DHE data, he studied, that there was still “a 25% gap in the mean earnings of graduates between the worst and better-paid subjects” (Chevalier, 2011 p. 1189).”