%0 Report
        %A Chevalier, Arnaud
%A Conlon, Gavan
        %T Does It Pay to Attend a Prestigious University?
        %D 2003
        %8 2003 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 848
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp848
        %X This paper provides evidence of heterogeneity in the returns to higher education in the UK.
Attending the most prestigious universities leads to a wage premium of up to 6% for males.
The rise in participation in higher education also led to a greater sorting of students and an
increase in the returns to quality. These results somehow justify the recent introduction of
top-up fees. Additionally, identification strategy matters and OLS estimates may be severely
biased. However, our estimates, based on propensity score matching, are imprecise due to
the thinness of the common support.
        %K higher education quality
%K tuition fees