college, (2) youth transitioning from foster care saving for education and other purposes, and (3) mothers saving for their …

Micro Census, we estimate the risk and returns to 75 fields of education, differentiating between vocational and academic … education. We identify fields of education that are efficient investment goods, i.e. high returns at a given level of risk, and … fields that are chosen for other (non-monetary) reasons. Furthermore, we rank fields of education by their return per unit of …

of education. The existence of employment observations prior to MBA enrollment allows for the control of unobserved …

the returns to education. …

A worker is said to be overeducated if he/she has acquired more education than is required to perform his/her job. In … approach to testing for overeducation. Overeducation is confirmed if we observe that education levels rose in jobs that offer … very low returns to education and that underwent little technological change. Using labor force surveys from four …

This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts on …