Using quantile regressions, this paper provides evidence that the relationship between school quality and wages varies … a positive return for individuals at high quantiles, they have a negative impact at low quantiles. Similarly, while more … highly paid teachers benefit drop-outs at high quantiles and graduates at low quantiles, they have a negative return for all …

density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …

firm. We assume a competitive labor market with unobservable effort, where firms condition wages on output as incentive for …

substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative specifications …

have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …

have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …