larger impact on wages for 24-year-old men and women in 1986 than in 1978. For women, the increase in the return to cognitive … skills between 1978 and 1986 accounts for all of the increase in the wage premium associated with post-secondary education …. We also show that high school seniors' mastery of basic cognitive skills had a much smaller impact on wages two years …

We measure the effects of parental education on the education profile of wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from … Women. We also use the variance across siblings in school characteristics to estimate the effects of school inputs on wages … holding family background constant. We obtained mixed evidence on whether parental education raises the return to education …

education outcomes. This paper explores the use of college proximity as an exogenous determinant of schooling. Analysis of the …A convincing analysis of the causal link between schooling and earnings requires an exogenous source of variation in … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

schooling, and examine wages at labor market entry and later. Including ability proxies reduces the estimate of the return to … considerably higher estimates of the return to schooling, although only for wages at labor market entry. This estimated return …We examine evidence on omitted-ability bias in estimates of the economic return to schooling, using proxies for …

education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the … effects on wages and educational attainment of specific courses of study. The main finding is that the return to additional …

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … additional years of schooling, holding constant their current state of residence, their state of birth, the average return to … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for …

The educational screening hypothesis states that beyond a certain point schooling functions as a signaling device to … identify pre-existing talents. We test for the presence of screening by comparing the schooling and earnings of self … additional schooling to signal prospective employers. We expect self-employed managers to acquire no additional schooling for …

dynamics differ substantially by gender, education, and origin. Men face lower volatility than women, but their earnings growth …

For birth cohorts 1935-44, 1945-62, and 1964-74, we estimate the contribution of education; permanent heterogeneity in …, fertility, and nonlabor income. We find that education and employment heterogeneity are key sources of the rise in the variance …