Purpose: Educational attainment is a robust predictor of disability in elderly Americans: older adults with high-school (HS) diplomas have substantially lower disability than individuals who did not complete HS. General Educational Development (GED) diplomas now comprise almost 20% of new HS credentials issued annually in the United States but it…

The purpose of this paper is to compare the role of human capital accumulation measured by number of years of schooling with the relative contribution of institutional capacity to prosperity. We employ several concepts of institutional quality prevalent in the literature. We discover that developing human capital is as important as superior…

Because the Current Population Survey changed its educational attainment questions in 1992, this paper presents a method for adjusting earnings at different educational levels to make pre- and post-1992 data comparable. The adjustments reduce the estimated growth in college/high school earnings ratios between 1989 and 1993. (Author/SK)

The socioeconomic profile of clients who received the services of the Hispanic Liaison Program (HLP) from May 1991 to October 1992 is presented. The HLP's primary objective is to serve as a link between the existing services in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, and the Hispanic population, a group of people often underserved due to language, cultural,…

The present study, based on recent data and methods that control for estimated measurement error structures, finds that social background plays a similar role for Whites and Blacks in determining educational attainment. (Author/LMO)

Presents state-level educational statistics on the elderly population for 1960, 1970, and 1975. Describes an economic perspective that incorporates the level of educational attainment as a strategic variable in an explanatory model of social and economic behavior. Presents several tables of state- and national-level educational statistics. (Author)

"Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups" examines the educational progress and challenges of students in the United States by race/ethnicity. This report shows that over time, the numbers of students of each race/ethnicity who have completed high school and continued their education in college have increased.…

The United States has experienced a significant increase in educational attainment since the 1970s. Young adults in school today are more likely than their parents to finish high school, attend college, and graduate from college. Yet, in California the share of working-age adults who do not have a high school diploma or certificate of General…

A study examined the extent to which socioeconomic and internal characteristics of families differentially affect ability of matched pairs of brothers and sisters to progress through the educational system. The data sets used were the National Longitudinal Surveys of Work Experience of Young Men and Women who were originally interviewed in 1966…

Data on Ph.D. productivity during 1951-1980 for all accredited institutions are presented, along with a narrative summary. Productivity ratios were computed by dividing the average number of Ph.D.s conferred per year (1951-1980) by the average number of bachelor's degrees conferred per year (1946-1976) for each institution. Liberal arts colleges…

An analysis of doctoral productivity for racial/ethnic groups is presented, comparing the number of doctoral degrees earned between 1975 and 1986 by the 1975-82 baccalaureate recipients of each U.S. institution. The data are analyzed for men and for women of five racial/ethnic groups (American Indians, Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites).…

In 1990, a study was conducted to determine the value of an Associate in Arts (AA) degree to 2,810 community college graduates from 5 Florida schools 8 years following graduation. By cross-matching the graduates social security numbers with both the State University System Student Data Course File and the Department of Unemployment Compensation…

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) was used to compare estimates of the benefits of education among different levels of education and thereby identify the returns to education and training in the subbaccalaureate labor market. The study data consisted of information on the educational attainment and income of 14,537 (7,981…

High school and post-high school experiences were compared for 1982, 1985, and 1989 graduates from Lewisburg, Middleburg, Mifflinburg, Selingsgrove, Shikellamy, and West Snyder High Schools, Pennsylvania. These experiences were contrasted by both year of graduation and by program of study: academic, Sun Area Technical School, home school…

Focusing on the controversy over whether community colleges aid or hinder their students' socioeconomic attainment, this paper aims to definitively determine the effects of these institutions and to explore how they produce those effects. The first section critically synthesizes research comparing the community college and other postsecondary…