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| Title: | | Does It Pay to Attend a Prestigious University?  |
| Authors: | | Chevalier, Arnaud Conlon, Gavan |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 848 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | higher education quality tuition fees |
| JEL: | | I22 I20 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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