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Jason Cohn – Urban Institute, 2024
Recent higher education accountability policies and proposals have often linked programs' or institutions' federal aid access to students' postcompletion earnings. But proposals differ regarding when to measure earnings. Policymakers may want to know how fast earnings typically grow and when in an individual's career earnings growth rates change.…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Income, Wages
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Venkatesh, Shrathinth – Education Economics, 2022
This paper documents the emerging role of education in the well-known decline in US male working hours. An insignificant hours difference between high school and college graduates becomes a significant 2 hours/week advantage for college graduates within a generation. This growing "college hours premium" is confirmed in alternate data.…
Descriptors: Males, Working Hours, High School Graduates, College Graduates
Sirui Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the impact of state educational programs on the economics of education and labor, focusing on the New York State (NYS) STEM Incentive Program and China's tuition-free policy for vocational secondary education (VSE). The first two Chapters analyze the effects of the NYS STEM Incentive Program, an initiative implemented in…
Descriptors: Economics, State Programs, STEM Education, Incentives