Table 4
Impact of one additional year of schooling on the probability of knowing a university degree is required

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Impact of one additional year of schooling on the probability of knowing a university degree is required
  15-year-olds sample 17-year-olds sample
  coefficient standard error coefficient standard error
First stage: Impact of being born before the school entry ABC cut-off on school grade 0.5598 *** 0.0673 0.3985 *** 0.0808
Second stage: Impact of one additional school grade on knowing that a university degree is required for intended career -0.1245 0.0950 -0.1731 0.1550
*
p<0.1
**
p<0.05
***
p<0.01
Note(s):
Only school grade students from Nova Scotia and Quebec (15-year-olds) or Nova Scotia (17-year-olds) who wanted a job requiring a university degree at a point in time are included in the samples. This includes 1,317 15-year-olds and 484 17-year-olds. All models are estimated by ordinary least squares and include the covariates listed in Table 2 (except the strategy variables), as well as school fixed effects and age (in years).
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A.
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