about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … similar increase in wages. Clearly, there was a sizeable gain from being born late enough to take advantage of the greater …

analysis, we exploit administrative data on whole populations of UK university students for ten graduate cohorts to investigate …

increased proportion of university students in Britain, we find that changes in the average ability gap between university … students and others are likely to have mitigated demand-side forces. …

Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British …

association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much is due to unobserved … factors that influence both wages and education (e.g. ability). In this paper, I use the 1970 British Cohort Study to examine …