Changes in the Economic Returns to Attending Prestigious Institutions in Norway

References

• Allison, P. D. (2009) Fixed Effects Regression Models, Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Andrews, R. J., Li, J. and Lovenheim, M. F. (2012) Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas, National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper Series No. 18068.
   Google Scholar
• Arnesen, C. Å. (2000) ‘Higher education and graduate employment in Norway’, European Journal of Education 35(2): 221–28. 10.1111/1467-3435.00020
   Google Scholar
• Barth, E. and Røed, M. (1999) ‘The return to human capital in Norway, a review of the literature’, in R. Asplund and P. T. Pereira (eds), Returns to Human Capital in Europe: A Literature Review, Helsinki: Taloustieto Oy, pp. 228–55.
   Google Scholar
• Barth, E., Røed, M. and Schøne, P. (2004) ‘Øker lønnsforskjellene i Norge? [Increasing wage inequality in Norway?]’, Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet 21: 247–51.
   Google Scholar
• Becker, G. S. (1993) Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Behrman, J. R., Rosenzweig, M. R. and Taubman, P. (1996) ‘College choice and wages: Estimates using data on female twins’, The Review of Economics and Statistics 78(4): 672–85. 10.2307/2109954
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bell, D. (1973) The Coming of Post-industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, New York, NY: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Bills, D. B. (2004) The Sociology of Education and Work, Malden, MA: Blackwell.
   Google Scholar
• Black, D. A. and Smith, J. A. (2006) ‘Estimating the returns to college quality with multiple proxies for quality’, Journal of Labor Economics 24(3): 701–28. 10.1086/505067
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Black, D. A., Smith, J. A. and Daniel, K. (2005) ‘College quality and wages in the United States’, German Economic Review 6: 415–43. 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2005.00140.x
   Google Scholar
• Borah, B. J. and Basu, A. (2013) ‘Highlighting differences between conditional and unconditional quantile regression approaches through an application to assess medication adherence’, Health economics 22: 1052–70. 10.1002/hec.2927
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Borgen, N. T. (2014) ‘College quality and hourly wages: Evidence from the self-revelation model, sibling models and instrumental variables’, Social Science Research 48: 121–34.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brand, J. E. and Halaby, C. N. (2006) ‘Regression and matching estimates of the effects of elite college attendance on educational and career achievement’, Social Science Research 35: 749–70. 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.06.006
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brewer, D. J., Eide, E. R. and Ehrenberg, R. G. (1999) ‘Does it pay to attend an elite private college? Cross-cohort evidence on the effects of college type on earnings’, The Journal of Human Resources 34: 104–23.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Broecke, S. (2012) ‘University selectivity and earnings: Evidence from UK data on applications and admissions to university’, Economics of Education Review 31: 96–107.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Budig, M. J. and Hodges, M. J. (2014) ‘Statistical models and empirical evidence for differences in the motherhood penalty across the earnings distribution’, American Sociological Review 79: 358–64. 10.1177/0003122414523616
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carneiro, P. and Lee, S. (2011) ‘Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960—2000’, The American Economic Review 101: 2309–49.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Collins, R. (1979) The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification, New York, NY: Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Cooke, L. P. (2014) ‘Gendered parenthood penalties and premiums across the earnings distribution in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States’, European Sociological Review 30: 360–72.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dale, S. B. and Krueger, A. B. (2002) ‘Estimating the payoff to attending a more selective College: An application of selection on observables and unobservables’, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117: 1491–527. 10.1162/003355302320935089
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Du Caju, P., Gautier, E., Momferatou, D. and Ward-Warmedinger, M. (2008) Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan, IZA Discussion Paper no. 3867. Bonn: The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
   Google Scholar
• Eliasson, K. (2006) How Robust is the Evidence on the Returns to College Choice? Results Using Swedish Administrative Data, Umeå Economic Studies series no. 692. Sweden: Department of Economics, Umeå University.
   Google Scholar
• Elwert, F. and Winship, C. (2014) ‘Endogenous selection bias: The problem of conditioning on a collider variable’, Annual Review of Sociology 40: 31–53. 10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043455
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Enders, C. K. (2010) Applied Missing Data Analysis, New York: Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• Firpo, S., Fortin, N. M. and Lemieux, T. (2009) ‘Unconditional quantile regressions’, Econometrica 77: 953–73. 10.3982/ECTA6822
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fournier, J.-M. and Koske, I. (2013) ‘Public employment and earnings inequality: An analysis based on conditional and unconditional quantile regressions’, Economics Letters 121: 263–66. 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.08.015
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frisell, T., Öberg, S., Kuja-Halkola, R. and Sjölander, A. (2012) ‘Sibling comparison designs: Bias from non-shared confounders and measurement error’, Epidemiology 23: 713–20. 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31825fa230
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gerber, T. P. and Cheung, S. Y. (2008) ‘Horizontal stratification in postsecondary education: Forms, explanations, and implications’, Annual Review of Sociology 34: 299–318. 10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134604
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Halsey, A. H., Lauder, H., Brown, P. and Wells, A. S. (1997) Education: Culture, Economy and Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hoekstra, M. (2009) ‘The effect of attending the flagship state university on earnings: A discontinuity-based approach’, Review of Economics and Statistics 91: 717–24.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Holmlund, L. (2009) The Effect of College Quality on Earnings. Evidence from Sweden. Umeå Economic Studies no. 781. Sweden: Department of Economics, Umeå University.
   Google Scholar
• Hoxby, C. M. (1998) The Return to Attending a More Selective College: 1960 to the Present. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
   Google Scholar
• Hussain, I., Mcnally, S. and Telhaj, S. (2009) University Quality and Graduate Wages in the UK. IZA Discussion Paper no. 4043. Bonn: The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
   Google Scholar
• Ishida, H., Spilerman, S. and Su, K.-H. (1997) ‘Educational credentials and promotion chances in Japanese and American organizations’, American Sociological Review 62: 866–82. 10.2307/2657344
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kahn, L. M. (1998) ‘Against the wind: Bargaining recentralisation and wage inequality in Norway 1987–91’, The Economic Journal 108: 603–45.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Karabel, J. and Mcclelland, K. (1987) ‘Occupational advantage and the impact of college rank on labor market outcomes’, Sociological Inquiry 57: 323–47. 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1987.tb00243.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Katz, L. F. and Autor, D. H. (1999) ‘Chapter 26 changes in the wage structure and earnings inequality’, in C. A. Orley and C. David (eds), Handbook of Labor Economics, Elsevier, pp. 1463–555.
   Google Scholar
• Killewald, A. and Bearak, J. (2014) ‘Is the motherhood penalty larger for low-wage Women? A comment on quantile regression’, American Sociological Review 79: 350–57. 10.1177/0003122414524574
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kingston, P. W. and Smart, J. C. (1990) ‘The economic pay-off of prestigious colleges’, in P. W. Kingston and L. S. Lewis (eds), The High-Status Track: Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification, Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 147–74.
   Google Scholar
• Kyvik, S. (2008) ‘The non-university higher education sector in Norway’, in J. S. Taylor, J. B. Ferreira, M. D. L. Machado and R. Santiago (eds), Non-university Higher Education in Europe, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 169–89.
   Google Scholar
• Lemieux, T. (2008) ‘The changing nature of wage inequality’, Journal of Population Economics 21(1): 21–48. 10.1007/s00148-007-0169-0
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levy, F. and Temin, P. (2007) Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
   Google Scholar
• Lindahl, L. and Regnér, H. (2005) ‘College choice and subsequent earnings: Results using Swedish sibling data’, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 107: 437–57. 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00417.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Long, M. C. (2008) ‘College quality and early adult outcomes’, Economics of Education Review 27: 588–602. 10.1016/j.econedurev.2007.04.004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Long, M. C. (2010) ‘Changes in the returns to education and college quality’, Economics of Education Review 29: 338–47. 10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.10.005
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lucas, S. R. (2001) ‘Effectively maintained inequality: Education transitions, track mobility, and social background effects’, American Journal of Sociology 106: 1642–90.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mastekaasa, A. (2011) ‘Ulikhet i arbeidsinntekter i Norge 1975–2004 mellom og innen utdanningsnivåer [Earnings inequality in Norway 1975–2004 between and within educational levels]’, Søkelys på arbeidslivet 28: 67–84.
   Google Scholar
• Mcguinness, S. (2006) ‘Overeducation in the labour market’, Journal of Economic Surveys 20(3): 387–418. 10.1111/j.0950-0804.2006.00284.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Myers, J. A., Rassen, J. A., Gagne, J. J., Huybrechts, K. F., Schneeweiss, S., Rothman, K. J., Joffe, M. M. and Glynn, R. J. (2011) ‘Effects of adjusting for instrumental variables on bias and precision of effect estimates’, American Journal of Epidemiology 174: 1213–22. 10.1093/aje/kwr364
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ordine, P. and Rose, G. (2015) ‘The effect of family background, university quality and educational mismatch on wage: An analysis using a young cohort of Italian graduates’, Education Economics 23(2): 213–37.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pascarella, E. T. and Terenzini, P. T. (2005) How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research, Vol. 2, San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons.
   Google Scholar
• Pearl, J. (2013) ‘Linear models: A useful “microscope” for causal analysis’, Journal of Causal Inference 1: 155–70.
   Google Scholar
• Psacharopoulos, G. and Patrinos, H. A. (2004) ‘Returns to Investment in Education: A Further Update’, Education Economics 12: 111–34. 10.1080/0964529042000239140
   Google Scholar
• Saavedra, J. E. (2009) The Learning and Early Labor Market Effects of College Quality: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis. Working paper, Universidad de los Andes.
   Google Scholar
• Suhonen, T. (2013) ‘Are there returns from university location in a state-funded university system?’, Regional Science and Urban Economics 43: 465–78. 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2013.02.008
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Suhonen, T. (2014) ‘Quality of higher education and earnings: Evidence from Finland using field-of-study-level quality measures’, International Review of Applied Economics 28: 22–44. 10.1080/02692171.2013.826635
   Google Scholar
• Tholen, G., Brown, P., Power, S. and Allouch, A. (2013) ‘The role of networks and connections in educational elites’ labour market entrance’, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 34: 142–54. 10.1016/j.rssm.2013.10.003
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Torp, H. and Schøne, P. (2005) ‘Økt avkastning av utdanning etter 2000 [Increasing returns to education after 2000]’, Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet 22: 95–101.
   Google Scholar
• Treiman, D. J. (1970) ‘Industrialization and Social Stratification*’, Sociological Inquiry 40: 207–34. 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1970.tb01009.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Triventi, M. (2013a) ‘The role of higher education stratification in the reproduction of social inequality in the labor market’, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 32: 45–63. 10.1016/j.rssm.2013.01.003
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Triventi, M. (2013b) ‘Stratification in higher education and its relationship with social inequality: A comparative study of 11 European Countries’, European Sociological Review 29: 489–502.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Trow, M. (1972) ‘The expansion and transformation of higher education’, International Review of Education 18: 61–84. 10.1007/BF01450272
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Trusheim, D. and Crouse, J. (1981) ‘Effects of college prestige on men’s occupational status and income’, Research in Higher Education 14: 283–304. 10.1007/BF00976680
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Try, S. and Aamodt, P. O. (2000) ‘Veksten i høyere utdanning gjennom femti år [Growth in higher education through 50 years]’, in S. Try (ed), Utdanning og arbeidsmarked 2000, Oslo: Norsk institutt for studier av forskning og utdanning (NIFU), pp. 11–32.
   Google Scholar
• Zhang, L. (2005a) ‘Do measures of college quality matter? The effect of college quality on graduates’ earnings’, Review of Higher Education 28: 571–96.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhang, L. (2005b) Does Quality Pay? Benefits of Attending a High-cost, Prestigious College, New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar