Rockwool Fond bevilling til Anders Sørensen

Rockwool Fonden har bevilliget CBS Økonomisk Institut Professor Anders Sørensen 720.000 kr. til at udføre forskningsprojektet "Curriculum, educational performance and wages". Projektet inkluderer andre forskere fra CBS og fra Syddansk Universitet. Projektet bidrager til Rockwool Fondens overordnede projekt "The benefit of education to society".

Formålsbeskrivelsen er på engelsk. The purpose of the project is to study the effect of curriculum choice and educational performance in the tertiary education on individual wages. This is an important aspect in the understanding of how tertiary education affects human capital creation. The focus will be on specific tertiary educations, namely, business administration and engineering. The main reason for this choice is that graduates from these majors to a high extent are employed in the private sector; and that wages determined in the private sector to a higher extent reflect individual productivity compared to wages in the public sector.