TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Chevalier, Arnaud
AU  - Conlon, Gavan
        TI  - Does It Pay to Attend a Prestigious University?
        PY  - 2003/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 848
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp848
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - higher education quality
KW  - tuition fees
        ER  -