-run earnings, employment, family income, household formation, and geographic mobility. We observe long-run outcomes by linking both … find treated children have between 5 to 6 percent higher earnings as young adults. The results are quite large for young … increases in earnings in adulthood. Finally, we find that increased earnings start at ages 21 and older for the treated students …

education in the four-year sector, is 12 percentage points more likely to earn a bachelor's degree, and eventually earns 5 … for the marginal students themselves, 10-12 percent for society (which must pay for the additional education), and 3 …

scores, post-secondary educational attainment, and earnings during adulthood. Second, using PM2.5 as an instrument, we … estimate a large economic return to each point on the exam and each additional year of post-secondary education. Third, we …

linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale … and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between the college that students attended in 1976 and the earnings they … self-reported reported in 1995 on the C&B follow-up survey. In this analysis, we use administrative earnings data to …

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 …

Private for-profit institutions have been the fastest growing part of the U.S. higher education sector. For …, students, and programs in the for-profit higher education sector, its phenomenal recent growth, and its relationship to the … also find that for-profit students end up with higher unemployment and "idleness" rates and lower earnings six years after …

Career technical education (CTE) programs at community colleges are increasingly seen as an attractive alternative to … returns to CTE programs using administrative data from the California Community College system linked to earnings records. We … employ estimation approaches including individual fixed effects and individual-specific trends, and find average returns to …