WWII in France. In order to identify the causal effect of education, we exploit the fact that the small group of people … graduating from elite education (Grandes Ecoles) remained stable, while the rest of the system experienced tremendous … cohorts that received more education have a lower wage gap, relative to Grandes Ecoles. We show that such a large scale …

The purpose of this article is to reevaluate the returns to geographic mobility and to the levelof education, taking … precise calculation of the distance betweenthe place of education and the location of first employment. We thus capture … returns to mobility with higher levels ofeducation. In addition, for all levels of education, including the lowest, returns to …

mandatory schooling reforms and education subsidies. We show how the nature of the skill accumulation process (substitutability …

the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. …

increases learning achievement, and also the future earnings and returns students expect from a college education, but no effect … on the earnings expected with high school education alone. This suggests that students believe that the benefits from … their elite education are complements to a college education. …