We examine whether online learning technologies have led to lower prices in higher education. Using data from the … Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, we show that online education is concentrated in large for-profit chains and less … real and relative prices for full-time undergraduate online education declined from 2006 to 2013. Although the pattern of …

The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education … American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly in America's heartland - a region we dub the 'education belt.' At … education very early. Iowa's small towns, as well as those across the nation, were the loci of the high school movement. In an …

.S. wage inequality after 1980 and place recent changes into a century-long historical perspective to understand the sources of … change. The majority of the increase in wage inequality since 1980 can be accounted for by rising educational wage … differentials, just as a substantial part of the decrease in wage inequality in the earlier era can be accounted for by decreasing …

last twenty years. Wage differentials by education and occupation (skill differentials) narrowed substantially in all four … countries in the 1970s. Overall wage inequality and skill differentials expanded dramatically in Great Britain and the United … States and moderately in Japan during the 1980s. In contrast, wage inequality did not increase much in France through the mid …