education outcomes. This paper explores the use of college proximity as an exogenous determinant of schooling. Analysis of the … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents … affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than …

education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the …

A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of …

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …

This paper studies the influence of education on labor and geographic mobility. Mobility is an important equilibrating … any factor that inhibits mobility also impedes economic adjustments. Does the high level of education in modern industrial …-specific capital predicts that education increases job duration and therefore inhibits job mobility (Jovanovic, 1979). On the other …