Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108455 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market No. BWP - 2010/7
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest
Abstract (Translated): 
The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method is used to reveal the effect of the field of study, and college fixed effects are investigated to determine the effect of college quality. Results show that graduates in economics and law earn more than they would if they had chosen some other field of study Specialization in teaching, by contrast, decreases not only earnings but employment probability as well. As regards the effect of the college of graduation, some colleges have significant positive or negative effect on either employment probability or on earnings but none on both. From among the most prestigious institutions, only Budapest University of Technology and Economics proved to have significant positive effect on after-graduation earnings.
Subjects: 
returns to college quality
returns to field of study
propensity score matching models
JEL: 
C14
I21
I23
J24
ISBN: 
978-615-5024-20-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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