ERIC Number: EJ878968
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jun
Pages: 10
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Changes in the Returns to Education and College Quality
Long, Mark C.
Economics of Education Review, v29 n3 p338-347 Jun 2010
This paper estimates changes in the effects of educational attainment and college quality on three cohorts of students observed during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Consistent with most of the prior literature, I find that educational attainment and college quality raise earnings, and the magnitudes of these effects have increased over time. The new contributions of this paper are the following: (1) changes in these effects are disaggregated by sex, race, and parent's SES, and include estimates of effects on earnings, labor force participation, family formation, and civic participation; (2) evidence of larger increases in the effects of education on earnings and labor force participation for men, Blacks, and Hispanics; (3) declining effects of educational attainment on voter registration; and (4) increasing effects of college quality on delaying marriage and childbearing, particularly for males. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Voting, Outcomes of Education, Citizen Participation, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Marriage, Racial Differences, Gender Differences, Economics, Correlation, Cohort Analysis, Student Characteristics, Followup Studies, Income, Employment Patterns, Educational Attainment, Education Work Relationship, Child Rearing, Human Capital
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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