Journal Article
No. 2011-12 | September 02, 2011
Tinh Doan and Philip Stevens
Labour Market Returns to Higher Education in Vietnam
(Published in Quasi Markets in Education)

Abstract

This paper employs the Ordinary Least Squares, Instrumental Variables and Treatment Effect models to a new dataset from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) to estimate return to four-year university education in 2008. Our estimates reveal that income premium of four-year university education is about 97 percent above that of high school education, and robust to the various estimators.Special IssueQuasi Markets in Education  

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JEL Classification:

C31, J31, O15

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Tinh Doan and Philip Stevens (2011). Labour Market Returns to Higher Education in Vietnam. Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 5 (2011-12): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2011-12