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Carnevale, Anthony P.; Rose, Stephen J.; Cheah, Ban – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2011
Education and earnings interact in complex and often unexpected ways--but there are rules to the game. "The College Payoff," a new paper from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, uses in-depth data analysis to identify, illuminate and elucidate those rules. This executive summary provides a glimpse of the education and…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Education Work Relationship, Economic Opportunities, Graphs
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Miech, Richard; Pampel, Fred; Kim, Jinyoung; Rogers, Richard G. – American Sociological Review, 2011
This article examines how educational disparities in mortality emerge, grow, decline, and disappear across causes of death in the United States, and how these changes contribute to the enduring association between education and mortality over time. Focusing on adults age 40 to 64 years, we first examine the extent to which educational disparities…
Descriptors: Mortality Rate, Etiology, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables
Snyder, Anastasia; McLaughlin, Diane; Coleman-Jensen, Alisha – Carsey Institute, 2009
This report focuses on the education and work experiences of rural youth during the emerging adult years (age 20 to 24), as they make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. It documents how rural emerging adults combine work and school and experience idleness, closely examines their educational attainment, and compares their experiences…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Young Adults, Adult Development, Federal Aid