experience only accumulates when in full-time employment. Finally, marginal increases in tax credits are preferred to equally …

We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary …

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college … school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of …. The literature finds that the GED testing program distorts social statistics on high school completion rates, minority …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

I survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results … school and the increasing availability of the GED credential help to explain stagnation in the face of substantial gaps … between the wages of high school graduates and school dropouts. I point out that there are several hypotheses, but to date …

early, and schooling merely widens them. Additional university tuition subsidies or improvements in school quality are not …

extracted tend to find negative effects of school resources, whereas the majority of studies from which relatively few estimates …

This paper investigates the economic and empirical foundations of the evidence relating earnings to schooling quality … earnings. Nonparametric tests strongly reject this hypothesis. The conventional assumption of linearity of the earnings … labor services. The empirically concordant model of earnings is a model of heterogeneous human capital in which regional …