For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of U.S. higher education markets. Students who … investments in higher education as well as how students make postsecondary education choices. …

-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and … individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We show how our model is a … education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and average per-year effects …

This paper examines the returns to university education in Japan, using tuition, availability of universities, and … crossprefecture variations, because birth cohort and prefecture dummies are also controlled. A set of education policy … empirical result shows that an additional year of university education increases hourly wage by about 9% on the population …