TY  - RPRT
A1  - Matthewes, Sönke Hendrik
A1  - Ventura, Guglielmo
T1  - On Track to Success?
BT  - Returns to Vocational Education Against Different Alternatives
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Many countries consider expanding vocational curricula in secondary education to boost skills and labour market outcomes among non-university-bound students. However, critics fear this could divert other students from more profitable academic education. We study labour market returns to vocational education in England, where until recently students chose between a vocational track, an academic track and quitting education at age 16. Identification is challenging because self-selection is strong and because students’ next-best alternatives are unknown. Against this back- drop, we leverage multiple instrumental variables to estimate margin-specific treatment effects, i.e., causal returns to vocational education for students at the margin with academic education and, separately, for students at the margin with quitting education. Identification comes from variation in distance to the nearest vocational provider conditional on distance to the nearest academic provider (and vice-versa), while controlling for granular student, school and neighbourhood characteristics. The analysis is based on population-wide administrative education data linked to tax records. We find that the vast majority of marginal vocational students are indifferent be- tween vocational and academic education. For them, vocational enrolment substantially decreases earnings at age 30. This earnings penalty grows with age and is due to wages, not employment. However, consistent with comparative advantage, the penalty is smaller for students with higher revealed preferences for the vocational track. For the few students at the margin with no further education, we find merely tentative evidence of increased employment and earnings from vocational enrolment.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 58 
KW  - vocational education
KW  - returns to education
KW  - multi-valued treatment
KW  - instrumental variables
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-567253
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 58
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Petersen, Hans-Georg
A1  - Kirchner, Markus
T1  - Education return and financing
BT  - donated affluence as consequence of tuition free study programs in Germany
N2  - The paper sheds some light on the education returns in Germany in the post war period. After describing higher education in Germany the current stand of higher education financing within the single states is presented. In six states tuition fees will be introduced in 2007/08 and discussions are going on in even some more. In the second part of the paper an empirical analysis is done using longitudinal data from the German social pension system. The analysis over the whole lifecycle renders results which proof that the higher education advantages are quite remarkable and might be a justification for more intensified financing by tuition fees. But all this has to be embedded into an encompassing strategy of tax and social policy, especially to prevent a strengthened process of social selection, which would be counterproductive for an increased and highly qualified human capital in Germany.
T3  - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge - 55 
KW  - education return
KW  - tuition fees
KW  - tertiary education
KW  - vocational education
KW  - human capital
KW  - lifetime income
KW  - income contingent loans
Y1  - 2008
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26969
SN  - 1864-1431
SN  - 0948-7549
ER  -