An average person born in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century completed 7 years of schooling … completed 14 years of schooling and spent 40 hours a week working. In the span of 100 years, completed years of schooling … life expectancy account for 80 percent of the increase in years of schooling and 88 percent of the reduction in hours of …

An average person born in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century completed 7 years of schooling … completed 14 years of schooling and spent 40 hours a week working. In the span of 100 years, completed years of schooling … life expectancy account for 80 percent of the increase in years of schooling and 88 percent of the reduction in hours of …

endogeneity of schooling costs. To overcome this issue, I use two measures of direct costs that are plausibly exogenous: living … vary by family income, parent education, race or gender. -- Schooling Costs ; Educational Attainment ; Financial Aid Policy …

patterns of returns that depend on the levels of schooling and ability. Unlike the monetary benefits of education, the benefits …

bombing during 1969-1973 reduced years of schooling by about 0.11-0.23. The effects for men are larger than those for women …