Ulf Gerdtham
Professor
Impact of a Tertiary Eligibility Threshold on Tertiary Education and Earnings : A Discontinuity Approach
Författare
Summary, in English
This study evaluates the impact of achieving tertiary eligibility in upper-secondary education on tertiary education and earnings in Sweden. Using a regression discontinuity design, we estimate the impact of tertiary eligibility and show that it has a substantial impact on the probability of enrolling in tertiary education. For students who achieve tertiary eligibility, the probability of enrolling in tertiary education increases by around 15 and 7 percentage points for an academic and vocational track, respectively. This implies (before age 30) around 8 percent higher earnings (at the intensive margin) for men on an academic track, while for women on an academic track it increases the probability of having positive incomes (the extensive margin) by around 3 percent. Thus, we conclude that (academic) students at the margin of eligibility for enrolling in tertiary education receive a substantial tertiary education payoff.
Avdelning/ar
- AgriFood Economics Centre, Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
- Hälsoekonomi
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
Publiceringsår
2017
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Working Papers
Issue
2017:12
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Working paper
Förlag
Department of Economics, Lund University
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Tertiary education
- upper-secondary education
- earnings
- eligibility
- regression discontinuity design
- I21
- I26
- I28
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Health Economics