Estimates of the rate of return to schooling, by level, have now been made for four Latin American countries: Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. The article presents a summary of the author's own results for Mexico and compares these results with the rates derived for the other three...

Migration is an investment that man makes in himself, and it is possible to estimate the rate of return to that investment, at least in part, by measuring income differentials of migrants due to moving from one location to another. This study estimates pecuniary rates of return to migrants...