education-ability-time interactions needed to assess the role of ability in explaining the rise in the return to education …

education. Economists and sociologists studying schooling choices have found empirical support for college subsidies in the well …

measure how these estimates vary by country, over time, and by estimation method. We find evidence reporting (or file drawer …') bias in the estimates and, after due account is taken of this bias, we find that differences due to estimation method are …

driven by social returns to education. The instrumentals for average schooling are derived from information on the child … instrument for individual schooling. This results in precisely estimated private returns to education of about seven percent, and …

participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and …

What was the return to education in the United States at mid-century? In 1940, the correlation between years of … return to education to recent studies implemented similarly. We find that the return to education was relatively low in 1940 …, with each additional year of schooling increasing labor earnings by approximately 4%. Returns to education were evident …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … point to low returns to for-profit enrollment that have important implications for public investments in higher education as …

Estimating the returns to education remains an active area of research amongst applied economists. Most studies that … estimate the causal return to education exploit changes in schooling and/or labor laws to generate exogenous differences in … education. An implicit assumption is that more time in school may translate into greater earnings potential. None of these …