TY - RPRT AU - Hartog, Joop AU - Ding, Xiaohao AU - Liao, Juan TI - Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China PY - 2011/Apr/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 5679 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5679 AB - We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wage distributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing the Bachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue as predicted by theory. The dispersions in these individual distributions have no effect on intention to continue, suggesting that anticipated earnings risk does not play a role in the decision. KW - wage expectations KW - educational choice ER -