various years to examine the relationship between cohort-level private schooling rates and later earnings during adulthood. We … attainment. We find a significant positive relationship between private schooling rates and adult earnings for women but a small …

end of high school. Lucky students take exams in subjects they are better at, and we show that this generates significant … improvements in both their high school GPA and diploma probability. Subsequently, exam luck generates substantial and persistent …

higher risk of subsequent unemployment and lower trajectory for future earnings after re-entry, it is crucial to gain a …

degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings … women. Third, we estimate the net present value and internal rate of return for each degree, which account for the time and …