This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent …

impact of market forces favoring human capital accumulation on the formation of earnings. Today, a large and growing fraction … for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low …-productivity agricultural or trading activities, with little earnings stability and little potential for long term earnings growth. Prospects …

find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings premium of …This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While …

vulnerable to business cycle variations at the time of graduation. …

The Student Right-to-Know Act requires colleges to provide institution-specific information on graduation rates for … students initially enrolling full-time in the fall term. Not all students, however, initially enroll full-time or in the fall … term. We use longitudinal data on academic, degree-seeking students from the 1996/2001 Beginning Post-Secondary Survey to …

students at a small public undergraduate liberal arts college in the Midwestern US as part of a larger study that collected the … power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation …

-term employment at labour market entry and (ii) reduce the number of children in the first 10 years after graduation. These …

-year graduation. Importantly, we take advantage of a unique institutional feature of the Texas higher education system to control for … inducing only minimal gains in college GPA and four-year graduation rates. …

sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in … finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We firstly show that procrastination is a strong predictor of students … background characteristics and indicators of students' motivation. Secondly, we investigate, using a Regression Discontinuity …