Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … nearly two decades, for samples split by education, and age - to our knowledge for the first time. The highly educated went … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …

This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … such increases are still an open question. We use census data to document the overall increase in education-related income …