The role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in increasing the education and economic well-being of … rural Blacks is not, perhaps, as clear today as in the past given the abolition of formal segregation in public education … high concentrations of Blacks. Further, the impact of HBCUs in promoting college education among Blacks is above and beyond …

, attractiveness, and supervisor's praise. Even education has been mentioned as having a (partially) positional character. However …, there has been only small consideration of education as a positional good in the empirical literature so far. Based on the … literature on positional concerns and the role of education on relative position, I use German panel data to investigate the …

Several reasons are responsible for income disparity across different nations. Education established itself to be the … primary reason for such disparities. Therefore, estimation of return on investments in education has become a great concern of … investments in education and found lower return for developing and least developed countries. Therefore, the study aimed to …

rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless, in many countries substantial education gaps persist between rich and …

played by academic two-year colleges in post-secondary education: Students, as they learn about the uncertain educational … capital. A theory of education is built and contrasted empirically to find that (i) option value explains a large part of …

with limited prior education, we find a relative life-time earnings advantage of general training. …

)match, i.e., whether a worker’s attained level of education corresponds to the qualificational requirements of his or her job … requirements of their jobs. Furthermore, there are workers perfectly matched with respect to their education who, nevertheless …