LSE Business Review:
Students' university degree classification affect their pay later in life
1 April 2016
Since the early 1960s, with developments in the field of human capital research, analysis of the returns to education has established robust evidence of a strong positive association between earnings and years of schooling or level of qualification attained. But there has been little analysis of how returns vary according to the level of academic performance - for example, what US universities measure as students' 'grade point average' - conditional on the level of qualification.
This article was published by the LSE Business Review blog on April 1, 2016
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Related publications
'Graduate Returns, Degree Class Premia and Higher Education Expansion in the UK', Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith and Shqiponja Telhaj, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1392, November 2015
In brief... The rewards for getting a good degree, Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith and Shqiponja Telhaj. Article in CentrePiece, Volume 20, Issue 3, Winter 2015/16
Related links
Shqiponja Telhaj webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage