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Po Yang – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The massification of higher education has dramatically changed the association between credentials and jobs in advanced countries, while its impacts in transitional economies have received less academic attention. To address this research lacuna, the paper utilizes rich information from China's national surveys of college graduates from 2003 to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Social Mobility, Access to Education
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Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan – Education Economics, 2014
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski [1996. Eliciting student expectations of the return to schooling. "Journal of Human Resources" 31, no. 1: 1-26] to solicit anticipated wage distributions for continuing to a master degree or going to work after completing the bachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on…
Descriptors: Wages, Expectation, Student Costs, Academic Persistence
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Hartog, Joop; Sun, Yuze; Ding, Xiaohao – Economics of Education Review, 2010
We report evidence that university reputation affects wages of bachelors in China. An unconditional difference between a top-100 university and a top 400-500 university of 23% is increased to some 28% by adding controls. Within the top-100 there is no differentiation in pay-off. Self-rated quality of high school, while affecting quality of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics