-profit higher education sector in the U.S. Our estimates include schools that are not currently eligible to participate in federal … student aid programs under Title IV of the Higher Education Act and are therefore missed in official counts. We find that the …

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 …

contemporary incarnation of this displacement--labor market polarization, meaning the simultaneous growth of high-education, high …-wage and low-education, low-wages jobs--a manifestation of Polanyi's paradox. I discuss both the explanatory power of the …

Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of … suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality …

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 …