OLS Results—Effect on Earnings of Completing a Vocational Instead of a General Program ($1,000)
Males | Females | |||
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Earnings Age 28 | Earnings Age 40 | Earnings Age 28 | Earnings Age 40 | |
Vocational | 7.161*** | −5.573*** | −2.713*** | −8.789*** |
(0.242) | (0.367) | (0.214) | (0.260) | |
N | 79,070 | 79,070 | 82,362 | 82,362 |
Notes: The table shows OLS estimates of effects of completing a vocational instead of a general upper secondary education on earnings. If a student completed both a general and a vocational upper secondary education program, they are categorized by their first completed program. The full set of controls is included: 92 municipality dummies, three cohort dummies, and 62 family background and ninth grade test score variables. Online Appendix Table A5 shows the means for the family background and test score controls included. Heteroskedasticity robust standard errors are in parentheses. For predicted earnings at age 40, standard errors are bootstrapped. + p < 0.10, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.