Recent studies have found a large earnings premium to attending a more selective college, but the mechanisms underlying …

This paper estimates future adult earnings effects associated with a universal pre-K program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These … et al. (forthcoming) on the relationship between kindergarten test scores and adult earnings, we generate plausible … projections of adult earnings effects and a partial cost-benefit analysis of the Tulsa pre-K program. We find substantial …

in lifetime earnings. …

. The book considers the main benefit of state economic development to be the resulting increase in earnings of the original … residents who stay in that state. Early childhood programs increase residents’ earnings largely by increasing the quantity and … programs. The book compares the effects on local earnings of early childhood programs with the effects of business incentives …

. The book considers the main benefit of state economic development to be the resulting increase in earnings of the original … residents who stay in that state. Early childhood programs increase residents’ earnings largely by increasing the quantity and … programs. The book compares the effects on local earnings of early childhood programs with the effects of business incentives …

demographics, employment and earnings information from the Unemployment Insurance wage record system, and transfer income … nine programs and negative for the other two. Short-run earnings impacts are insignificant for four of the programs … positive for all nine programs, and earnings are positive for seven and insignificantly different from zero for the other two …

were undertaken and a survey of participants (n = 1800), learning gains, and earnings histories were quantitatively …

. Effects on the county’s economic development are defined as effects on the employment and earnings of county residents. The …