and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between the college that students attended in 1976 and the earnings they … estimate the return to various measures of college selectivity for a more recent cohort of students: those who entered college … in 1989. We also estimate the return to college selectivity for the 1976 cohort of students, but over a longer time …

There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …

start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school … can be derived for one cohort of students, to the 1980 Census, which contains educational attainment for the same cohort … of students. The results suggest that roughly 10 percent of students were constrained to stay in school by compulsory …

of schooling on income and GDP growth. Much microeconometric evidence suggest that education is an important causal … determinant of income for individuals within countries. At a national level, however, recent studies have found that increases in … effect of changes in educational attainment on income growth in cross-country data is at least as great as microeconometric …

This paper tries to reconcile evidence on the effect of schooling on income and on GDP growth from the microeconometric … determinant of income for individuals within countries as diverse as Sweden and the United States. At a national level, however …. After accounting for measurement error, the effect of changes in educational attainment on income growth in cross …