{"id":4500,"date":"2021-03-29T15:08:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:23","slug":"the-returns-to-undergraduate-degrees-by-socio-economic-group-and-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2021\/03\/29\/the-returns-to-undergraduate-degrees-by-socio-economic-group-and-ethnicity\/","title":{"rendered":"The returns to undergraduate degrees by socio-economic group and ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifs.org.uk%2Fpublications%2F15382&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C0e56ebd17c2c4937797908d8f1236f44%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637524481792978705%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=AXREOyOCgje3EzGbG9cudv7Ic2Eb2WqnmYkVe5EHnvs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Published this week by IFS<\/a> this report considers evidence on the potential benefits of a degree by studying earnings of recent graduates in a range of subject areas. The focus is on whether\u00a0certain social class and ethnic groups get more economic benefit out of going to university.  According to the website:<br>&#8220;The research finds that people from all socio-economic and ethnic groups benefit financially from going to university, but students from some groups benefit more than others.  Among the state-educated, students from the poorest 20% of families have relatively large gains, even though their median earnings at age 30 are the lowest at only \u00a325k for men and \u00a321k for women.  This is because we estimate that they would have earned much less still had they not gone to university.  For state-educated 30-year-olds from the poorest 20% of families who did not go to university, median earnings are very low at \u00a320k for men and \u00a311k for women.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published this week by IFS this report considers evidence on the potential benefits of a degree by studying earnings of recent graduates in a range of subject areas. The focus is on whether\u00a0certain social class and ethnic groups get more economic benefit out of going to university. According to the website:&#8220;The research finds that people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,9],"tags":[183,75,607,167,93,147],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-higher-education","tag-race","tag-salary","tag-social-class","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}