has a 3.1 times higher chance to go to secondary school than a child from a working class family, controlling for ability …

of the lower payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US. -- immigrants ; schooling ; school quality ; earnings … paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the … transmission mechanism for the origin-country school quality effects. It also assesses the empirical merits of two alternative …

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college … school credentials issued in that year. This chapter reviews the academic literature on the GED, which finds minimal value of …. The literature finds that the GED testing program distorts social statistics on high school completion rates, minority …

and earnings in Japan remain few and riddled with shortcomings. This paper examines the returns to college education among … earnings. My findings confirm that college quality plays a crucial role in shaping both incentives and earnings in the Japanese … significant impact of tenure and firm-size on earnings, and the similarity in the earnings profiles between blue- and white …