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Publication Date: 2014
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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan
Education Economics, v22 n5 p471-483 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 intention to continue as predicted by theory. The dispersions in these individual distributions have no effect on intention to continue, suggesting that anticipated earnings risk does not play a role in the decision.
Descriptors: Wages, Expectation, Student Costs, Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Outcomes of Education, Regression (Statistics), Risk
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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