@article {546281,
	title = {Is improving access to university enough? Socio economic gaps in the earnings of English graduates},
	journal = {Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics},
	volume = {81},
	year = {2019},
	month = {2018},
	pages = {328-368},
	abstract = {Much research and policy attention has been on socio economic gaps in participation at\&nbsp;university, but little attention has been paid to gaps in earnings. This paper addresses this\&nbsp;shortfall using tax and student loan administrative data to investigate the earnings of English\&nbsp;graduates up to their mid thirties by socio economic background. We find that \&nbsp;graduates from\&nbsp;higher income families (from the top fth of the income distribution of those enrolled in university) have average earnings which are 20\% higher than those from lower income families.\&nbsp;Once we condition on institution and subject choices, this premium roughly halves, to around 10\%. The premium grows with age and is larger for men, in particular for men at the most\&nbsp;selective universities. We follow Chetty et al. (2017) and estimate English mobility scorecards\&nbsp;by university and subject, highlighting the good performance of medicine, economics, law, business, engineering, technology, math, computer science and architecture courses as well as the\&nbsp;prominent London-based universities.},
	author = {Jack Britton and Lorraine Deardon and Neil Shephard and Anna Vignoles}
}
