Estimating the Effects of Delayed Entry into Higher Education: A Discussion

Maria Humlum

Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift, 2007, vol. 2007, issue 1, 312-326

Abstract: In Denmark many high school graduates choose to delay their entry into higher education. A number of studies have investigated the effects of the delay on educational and labour market careers. The existing studies are likely to suffer from selection bias, and this problem is unlikely to be remedied by use of control variables. More advanced techniques that can eliminalte the selection bias are needed in order to identify casual effects. For policy purposes it would thus be preferable to focus on the economic losses associated with the years lost in the skilled labour market which are potentially substantial.

Keywords: education; sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.xn--nt-lka.dk/files/2007/2007.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:jdaecn:0136

Access Statistics for this article

Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift is currently edited by Jan Rose Skaksen

More articles in Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift from Nationaløkonomisk Forening Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lasse Wolsgård ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).