We model education as an investment in human capital that, like other investments, is appropriately evaluated in a … education, but which implicitly ignores risk, we evaluate the returns by treating the value of human capital as the price of a … of the value of education, these returns are still large enough to offset both the direct and indirect cost of college …

information intervention, gaps in intended college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20 …

(the oldest). The analysis of educational attainment suggests that significant differences in the type of education exist …. Younger students are more likely to pursue an apprenticeship and less likely to have higher education. After five years of …

In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use … especially returns to university education have fallen. If the focus is not on mean returns, but if we apply quantile regression …

to estimate individual response to earnings risk in deciding on attending university education, by measuring risk as the …