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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK

Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-07-08)

This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation ...
The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK

Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)

This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree – the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled ...
Do Dads matter? Or is it just their money that matters? Unpicking the effects of separation on educational outcomes

Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)

The widely held view that separation has adverse effects on children has been the basis of important policy interventions. While a small number of analyses have been concerned with selection into divorce, no studies have ...
Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-12-23)

It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital ...
Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?

Harmon, Colm ; Chevalier, Arnaud ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (Blackwell, 2004-11)

Education has an important effect on wages but it not clear whether this is because education raises productivity or because education is simply a signal of ability. We implement a number of existing tests for discriminating ...
Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-01)

It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital ...
Who benefits from child benefit?

Blow, Laura ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-08)

Governments, over much of the developed world, make significant financial transfers to parents with dependent children. For example, in the US the recently introduced Child Tax Credit (CTC), which goes to almost all ...