both hourly wages and annual work hours. Fourth, the returns to cognitive skill are greater for women than men and for … corresponding changes in hourly wages. Fifth, the average gains in lifetime incomes predicted to result from greater levels of …

higher marginal rate of substitution of current wages for future wages. Incidentally, a survey of several hundred …

We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. We find a … have lower than average earnings relative to those of similar high education. This effect is not found among women …

, as well as an index of cognitive ability, the intelligence quotient. We find that adaptability and cognitive ability have …

discusses the possibility that these interventions have proven efficacious in part because they promote adaptive personality …

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by … substantial portions of the variance in achievement test scores and grades, which are often used as measures of cognition, are … explained by personality variables …

to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market … for graduates. The principal finding is that the longitudinal/cohort earnings profile for college graduates flattened … markedly relative to that for high school graduates in the 1970s. With smaller growth rates of earnings for the college …

retrospective. Using longitudinal panel data (on married women in NLS) we have now established that real wages at reentry are …, indeed, lower than. at the point of labor force withdrawal, and the decline in wages is bigger the longer the interruption …. Another striking finding is a relatively rapid growth in wages after the return to work. This rapid growth appears to reflect …

selection eliminates the positive relationship between college selectivity and earnings. We also find no significant effects on … attainment by 5 percentage points and earnings by 14 percent, while reducing their likelihood of marriage by 4 percentage points …. The effect of college selectivity on own earnings is significantly larger for married than for single women. Among married …