The effects of religious and denominational background on earnings and the returns to human capital are examined. When religious differences are constrained to be additive, apart from a Jewish differential, there is virtually no evidence that religious or denominational background affects...

From a probit model of enrollments, estimates of the expected net present value of postsecondary education are developed for a sample of high school graduates, based exclusively on individual expectations of the relevant costs and benefits at the time of ...