Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

Affirmative action policies in higher education are used in many countries to try to socially advance historically … over the actual impact of such preferences in higher education on educational performance and labor outcomes. Most of the … higher education on minority students focusing on three central issues in the current debate: targeting, catch up, and …

driven by social returns to education. The instrumentals for average schooling are derived from information on the child … instrument for individual schooling. This results in precisely estimated private returns to education of about seven percent, and …

, usually associated with research on the influence of school inputs on earnings. Earnings studies have tended to find … substantively large effects, similar in size to those found in many earnings-focused studies. In this way, our results point to the …

shows that standard human capital accounting methods can severely underestimate the role of education in development. It …

market earnings by using institutional features of the supply side of the education system as exogenous determinants of …This paper reviews a set of recent studies that have attempted to measure the causal effect of education on labor …, differences in the accessibility of schools, and similar features as instrumental variables for completed education reveals that …

different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …

beliefs about post-college earnings. …