which log-wages are explained by two endogenous variables: the student's degree and the student's time to degree, not simply … by years of education. Log-wages are regressed on a measure of education, which is a position on a scale of certificates … parameters. We find a robust, significant and negative impact of the delay variable on wages, averaged over the first five years …

density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …

substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative specifications …

firm. We assume a competitive labor market with unobservable effort, where firms condition wages on output as incentive for …

have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …

have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative …