The role of university characteristics in determining post-graduation outcomes : Incidence des caractéristiques d'une université sur les résultats professionnels après le diplôme, témoignages de trois cohortes canadiennes récemment diplômées

These include age and its square at the time of the survey, marital status, parental education, presence of children, province of residence, education completed prior to the Bachelor’s degree, field of study, and the months of work experience prior to graduating from the Bachelor’s program. [...] In order to measure university resources devoted to teaching, we merge the NGS data with data available from the federal government on the characteristics of each Canadian university: the ratio of full-time teaching personnel to undergraduate students, the proportion of teachers by rank (full, associate, assistant professors), median salaries of faculty by rank, and the proportion of graduate stud [...] However, to the extent that the most able students in a province always attended universities A and B over the eight-year period under study, the fixed effects sweep average ability of the university’s student body out of the wage equations. [...] We also examine the impact of the research orientation of the university, as measured through the share of graduate students in the overall student population. [...] We estimate reduced forms of each of these models, in the sense that the given outcome five years after graduation is modeled as a function of the educational background and work experience of the student at the time of graduation.