election, this study examines the roles played by income, unemployment, education, age, race, and labor force participation. In …

preference for states with higher per pupil outlays on primary and secondary public education. …

each state as the total outlay per pupil on primary and secondary public education minus the per capita property tax level …

positive bilingual-earnings relationship found in the most current research on this topic. We test the relationship using … earnings to be mixed. The relationship is sufficiently frail that statistically significant results eventually dissolve as more …

Education is effectively used as a discontinuous variable in studies estimating the rates of return by level of … education. We find that the normal procedure used for estimating the rate of return to broad aggregates such as secondary and …, as expected, that broad aggregations that ignore sub-levels of education result in a loss of important insights about the …