Examining the economic value of education has been a central research agenda of social
scientists for decades. However, prior research inadequately accounts for the discrepancy …

Recent efforts to understand aggregate student loan debt have shifted the focus away from
undergraduate borrowing and toward dramatically rising debt among graduate and …

This study examines disruptions to postsecondary education plans in the United States
during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using nationally representative data from the US Census …

We document that college completion rates have increased since the 1990s, after declining
in the 1970s and 1980s. We find that most of the increase in graduation rates can be …

Since the beginning of the all-volunteer era, millions of young Americans have chosen to
enlist in the military. These volunteers disproportionately come from disadvantaged …

This paper investigates the wage returns to schooling and actual early work experiences
and how these returns have changed over the past 20 years. Using the NLSY surveys, we …

Background: Since the latter part of the 20th Century, countries have been particularly
challenged by the trade-off that exists between delivering generous welfare provisions and …

We study the relationship between educational inequality, income inequality and economic
transformation using data of 20 OECD countries from 1870 to 2016. Our results show that …

Although rising average grades appear to be common at post-secondary institutions in the
US, there is still little work examining mechanisms driving this increase in grades. This paper …

Using data on fifteen countries based on the harmonization of IALS and PIAC data, we
provide a cross-national analysis of the evolution of the role of educational attainment and …