Ulf Gerdtham
Professor
IMPACT OF A TERTIARY ELIGIBILITY THRESHOLD ON TERTIARY EDUCATION AND EARNINGS : A DISCONTINUITY APPROACH
Författare
Summary, in English
This study uses a discontinuity in the Swedish tertiary eligibility requirement to estimate the probability of enrolling in tertiary education, and the payoff thereof. Regression discontinuity results, show that achieving tertiary eligibility in upper-secondary education, increases the probability of enrolling in tertiary education by around 10–15 and 7 percentage points for students who enrolled on an academic and vocational track, respectively. For academic students, this implies 5% higher earnings for men, while for women it increases the probability of having positive incomes by 2%. Thus, academic students at the margin of tertiary education receive a substantial tertiary education payoff. (JEL I21, I26, I28).
Avdelning/ar
- AgriFood Economics Centre, Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
- Hälsoekonomi
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
Publiceringsår
2020
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
401-424
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Economic Inquiry
Volym
58
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Economics
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Health Economics
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0095-2583