School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …

first to inquire of wage and salary income and education. We address what the returns to skill were prior to 1940 and piece …

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

, students, and programs in the for-profit higher education sector, its phenomenal recent growth, and its relationship to the … federal and state governments. Using the 2004 to 2009 Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) longitudinal survey we assess … outcomes of a recent cohort of first-time undergraduates who attended for-profits relative to comparable students who attended …

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …

following MBA completion. The presence of children is the main contributor to the lesser job experience, greater career …

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students. The …