The Canadian University Selectivity Premium

Joniada Milla

Review of Economic Analysis, 2018, vol. 10, issue 4, 313-349

Abstract: "This paper surveys the recent empirical literature on wage premium to university selectivity, and provides new evidence to this literature on a country such as Canada that has a distinct higher education system from those already analyzed. I estimate the wage premium to university selectivity using Canadian data and two popular methods to correct for non-random selection in universities of different quality: matching methods and instrumental variables (IV). I estimate a wage premium of 7% using the matching estimator, and a premium of 14.8% using the IV estimator for alumni of selective Canadian universities 4–6 years after graduation. My findings are in line with the literature on countries with a moderately differentiated higher education system that has low variation in tuition fees and is well supported by public funds."

Keywords: "University selectivity; Wage premium; Context " (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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