How much does degree choice matter?

Autor/inn/en	Britton, Jack; Erve, Laura van der; Belfield, Chris; Vignoles, Anna; Dickson, Matt; Zhu, Yu; Walker, Ian; Dearden, Lorraine; Sibieta, Luke; Buscha, Franz
Titel	How much does degree choice matter? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wie wichtig ist die Wahl des Abschlusses?.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2022) 79, 22 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102268
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Einkommenseffekt; Universität; Studienwahl; Studienortwahl; Auswirkung; Großbritannien
Abstract	"We use a large and novel administrative dataset to investigate returns to different university 'degrees' (subject-institution combinations) in the United Kingdom. Conditioning on a rich set of background characteristics, we find substantial variation in returns across degrees with similar selectivity levels, suggesting students' degree choices matter a lot for later-life earnings. Returns increase with university selectivity much more at the top of the selectivity distribution than further down, and much more for some subjects than others. Returns are poorly correlated with observable degree characteristics other than selectivity, which could have important implications for student choices and the incentives of universities." The study refers to the period 2002-2017. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1