Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50586 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 08,09
Publisher: 
University of Kent, Department of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
This paper reports estimates of the UK 'college premium' for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply considerably outstripped demand which ought to imply a fall in the premium. We find no significant fall for men and even a large, but insignificant, rise for women. Quantile regression results reveal a fall in the premium only for men in the bottom quartile of the distribution of unobserved skills.
Subjects: 
human capital
higher education
college premium
JEL: 
I20
J30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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