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The returns to education in Arkansas : evidence from the 1987 compulsory education law

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2026

This paper estimates the returns to education in Arkansas-one of the last states to extend compulsory schooling-using ACS 2023 data and the 1987 Compulsory Schooling Law (CSL) reform as an instrument. OLS estimates imply returns of 9.5-10.4 percent per year of schooling. The CSL reform increased...

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The returns to education in Arkansas : evidence from the 1987 Compulsory Education Law

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2026

This paper estimates the returns to education in Arkansas - one of the last states to extend compulsory schooling - using ACS 2023 data and the 1987 Compulsory Schooling Law (CSL) reform as an instrument. OLS estimates imply returns of 9.5-10.4 percent per year of schooling. The CSL reform...

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Education and earnings in Arkansas

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2025

This paper presents the first analysis for Arkansas using 2024 CPS data to examine education's impact on earnings and returns to investment. Average returns are 7.7%, higher for women (9%). University education yields even more: 8.8% overall, 8.1% for men, and 10.8% for women. With full...

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Education and earnings in Arkansas

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2025

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings … function by Becker and Chiswick (1966), which relates the logarithm of earnings, as a linear function of years invested in … human capital, with the application to years of schooling. This was expanded by Mincer (1974) to the "human capital earnings …

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023

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College access and notability in the United States

Stemper, Samuel - In: Regional science and urban economics 116 (2026), pp. 1-19

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College major choice, payoffs, and gender gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2026

This paper studies how college major choices shape earnings and fertility outcomes. Using administrative data that link students' preferences, random assignment to majors, and post-college outcomes, we estimate the causal pecuniary and nonpecuniary returns to different fields of study. We...

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Inflation and human capital investment decisions

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Westergren, Kerstin - 2026

This study investigates the impact of inflation on human capital investment decisions. Using a specially designed survey we estimate the causal effect of recent price level increases on the graduation plans of over 1,200 U.S. university students. We find that inflation caused over half of the...

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Is academic-track schooling worthwhile without college? : decomposing monetary returns to education

Krumme, Anna; Westphal, Matthias - 2026

We estimate monetary wage returns to academic-track education, Germany’s elite secondary school type granting university entrance. Because academic-track attendance and subsequent university education are institutionally linked, we disentangle their contributions using a causal mediation...

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