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 …

of AE improves earnings by 4.4 per cent, but calculations indicate that the private returns alone only roughly cover the …

to evaluate the impact on annual earnings. The estimated average return was 4.4% in 2004. Calculations indicate that this …

This paper examines the earnings returns to learning that takes place following the conventional ‘school-to-work’ stage …-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Our dynamic specification uses a lag structure to consider how earnings returns evolve in the medium …'s subsequent earnings but, for men, any apparent gain is due to selection. …

estimate the earnings gains to for-profit college attendance using restricted-access data from the 1997 National Longitudinal … experience earnings gains of about 10% relative to high school graduates with no college degree, conditional on employment. Since …