TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Agarwal, Lisha
AU  - Brunello, Giorgio
AU  - Rocco, Lorenzo
        TI  - The Pathways to College
        PY  - 2019/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12691
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12691
        AB  - We estimate the effect of the high school curriculum (or track) on the returns to college using data from the Italian PLUS (Participation Labour and Unemployment Survey) survey. We find that college graduates with vocational high school are less likely to be employed than graduates with academic high school. When employed, they earn 7.3 percent less per hour but work 3.8 percent more hours per week. They are less likely to fill high ranked occupations and more likely to find their first job quickly after school completion than other graduates. The wage penalty associated to vocational education in high school is larger for females than for males and for those born in the less economically developed Southern regions.
        KW  - returns to college
KW  - high school curriculum
KW  - Italy
        ER  -