College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method that links a census of U.S. degrees and fields of study with measures of the knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage...

College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method that links a census of U.S. degrees and fields of study with measures of the knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage...

This study estimates earnings function parameters across alternative occupational paths, with an emphasis on identifying rates of return to school and post-school human capital investment. Based on cross-sectional and synthetic cohort analysis using the 1973-2000 Current Population Surveys,...

This study estimates earnings function parameters across alternative occupational paths, with an emphasis on identifying rates of return to school and post-school human capital investment. Based on cross-sectional and synthetic cohort analysis using the 1973-2000 Current Population Surveys,...

A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from unmeasured differences between military veterans and nonveterans. The effects of activeduty service are estimated using the 1986 and 1992 Reserve Components Surveys, which permit a matched comparison...