Students’ assessment of higher education in Spain

César Alonso-Borrego and Antonio Romero-Medina
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IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola

Abstract: We explore evidence on the perceived economic value of higher education to college students in terms of their reported expected and shadow wages. Our estimates provide predictions for expected wages that are similar across gender and become closer to actual wages as students approach graduation. This is consistent with an improvement in the quality of student information used to forecast wages. Shadow wages relative to expected wages increase during the academic year for men and are constant for women, which is consistent with the higher reluctance of women to drop out of university. Finally, students with lower socioeconomic background and poor performance exhibit a higher propensity to drop out.

Keywords: University; education; Subjective; valuation; Wage; expectations; Shadow; wages; Ordered; response (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09
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