Schooling effects and earnings of French University graduates: school quality matters, but choice of discipline matters more - HAL Accéder directement au contenu
Pré-publication, Document de travail Année : 2010

Schooling effects and earnings of French University graduates: school quality matters, but choice of discipline matters more

Résumé

Our aim in this article is to study the relation between earnings of French universities graduates and some characteristics of their universities. We exploit data from the Céreq's "Génération 98" survey, enriched with information on university characteristics primarily from the ANETES (yearbook of French institutions of higher education). We employ multilevel modeling, enabling us to take advantage of the natural hierarchy in our separate datasets, and thus to identify, and even to measure potential effects of institutional quality. Since we take into account many individual students characteristics, we are able to obtain an income hierarchy among the different disciplines : students who graduated in science, economics or management obtain the highest earnings. Below them, we and students who graduated in law, political science, communication or language and literature, while the ones who graduated in social studies earn the lowest incomes. On the institutional level, we need two significant quality effects : the rest is from the socioeconomic composition of the university's student population, and the second effect is from the university's network in the job market. These last two results remain stable when we examine subsamples of universities according to their dominant teaching fields, except for universities that are particularly concentrated in science.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
DTGREQAM2010-09.pdf ( 511.44 Ko ) Télécharger
Origine : Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Loading...

Dates et versions

halshs-00480289, version 1 (03-05-2010)

Identifiants

  • HAL Id : halshs-00480289 , version 1

Citer

Jean-François Giret, Mathieu Goudard. Schooling effects and earnings of French University graduates: school quality matters, but choice of discipline matters more. 2010. ⟨halshs-00480289⟩
98 Consultations
389 Téléchargements
Dernière date de mise à jour le 06/04/2024
comment ces indicateurs sont-ils produits

Partager

Gmail Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Plus