The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics … majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and …

with different skill levels. For our analysis, we link the PIAAC survey data on literacy and numeracy skills with the …

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 …

This paper investigates whether returns to schooling differ according to the choice of the measure of earnings and the … the Heckman method, we show that converting earnings to common measures and pooling respondents produces different …

people. Closures are expected to reduce schooling and lead to future losses in earnings. Starting from the assumption that … every additional year of schooling translates to 8 percent in future earnings, this paper estimates and confirms the loss in … marginal future earnings on the basis of a four-month shutdown. We also estimated the losses by level of education. The …

expected to reduce learning and will lead to future losses in earnings and labor productivity. Schooling attainment leads to … increased earnings. What is not known is how much earnings will decline due to the school closures. Starting with the fact that … every year of schooling equates to 8-9 percent in additional future earnings, this paper uses the number of months of …

information. Girls expect substantially lower earnings in all schooling scenarios, but implicit rate of returns do not differ from …