Do UK Higher Education Students Overestimate Their Starting Salary?*
Do UK Higher Education Students Overestimate Their Starting Salary?*
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英国高等教育学生是否高估了他们的起薪？*
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-5890.2011.00148.x
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发表时间：
2011
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影响因子：
7.3
通讯作者：
Jerrim J
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作者：
Jerrim J
大学生工资预期与人力资本理论、招生模式和高等教育公共政策有关。然而，这些预期在欧洲国家的研究相对较少，在英国也没有现成的证据。到目前为止，文献中也很少考虑到有多少估计可能因非响应和样本选择而产生偏差。因此，本文通过比较英国本科生的预期工资与同一群体毕业时的实际工资，在试图根据可观察到的特征纠正上述统计问题之后，对文献做出了原创性贡献。与其他欧洲研究相比，我得出的结论是，平均而言，全日制学生高估了他们的起薪。然而，我也发现，在不同的子群体之间，高估的程度存在很大差异。
The wage expectations of university students have relevance for human capital theory, models of student enrolment, and public policy on the provision of higher education. However, these expectations have been the subject of relatively little research in European countries, with no contemporary evidence available in the UK. There has also been little consideration in the literature thus far of how much estimates may be biased by non‐response and sample selection. This paper thus makes an original contribution to the literature by comparing UK undergraduate students' wage expectations with the actual wages earned by the same cohort on graduation, after attempting to correct for the aforementioned statistical issues in terms of observable characteristics. In contrast to other European studies, I conclude that, on average, full‐time students overestimate their starting salary. Yet I also find substantial variation in the extent of overestimation between different subgroups.