have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …

have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …

Sweden represents an archetypal welfare state economy, with extensive government safety nets. Some scholars have … policies. This paper argues rather, that the permanent loss in output following Sweden’s banking crisis in the early 1990s …