Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35561 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4043
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We explore the implications of using different measures of quality and combining them into an aggregate measure. Our findings suggest a positive return to university quality with an average earnings differential of about 6 percent for a one standard deviation rise in university quality. However, the relationship between university quality and wages is highly non-linear, with a much higher return at the top of the distribution. There is some indication that returns may be increasing over time.
Subjects: 
University quality
returns to education
JEL: 
I23
J24
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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