Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school age youth. This paper takes the opposite view and … reduce time spent at school. The model is estimated using a US panel dataset, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 …, and the estimation allows for the possible endogeneity of returns from these competing activities. The results show that …

educational attainment, as proxied by their academic outcomes in high school. The NLSY females did indeed perform better than the …

America depressed the wages of workers with secondary school. We also show that there have been sharp increases in the demand …Changes in the relative wages of workers with different amounts of education have profound implications for developing … nested CES function. Using this model, we show that the dramatic expansion in secondary school in many countries in Latin …