In this paper we empirically investigate the direct effects of education on utility. Besides investment aspects of education, the focus is placed on its consumption component and on education positional concerns. We use data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and adopt a life satisfaction approach. First, we find that education shows a significant…

A life cycle perspective is used in this study to develop and test a model suggesting that events occuring early in the worker's life, and often beyond his control (e.g., choice of parents), influence the control over labor force withdrawal and the retirement incomes of very early retirees. (CT)

Analysis of educational levels and earnings associated with specific occupations supported seemingly conflicting explanations of inequality: (1) the job competition theory that education has no effect on equalization of earnings; and (2) the free market theory suggesting an effect of educational level on earnings and of unequal education on…

With data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study investigates the direct and indirect effects of education on an individual's self-reported work hours lost due to illness. (Author/CT)

Current Population Survey data indicate that nonmetropolitan personal income increased in real terms during 1990-96, whereas metropolitan income did not. Among long-term influences, steadily rising educational attainment has fostered convergence between nonmetro and metro income. Table and figure detail nonmetro and metro incomes, 1990-96, for…

Data from a 1986 general social survey of Hungary were used to examine the effects of cultural capital on income inequalities under state socialism in Hungary. While both educational and lifestyle aspects of cultural capital had independent effects, certification obtained through formal education was the strongest cultural capital predictor of…

Data from a sample of 2,049 agriculture graduates of 1862 land-grant universities and 235 from 1890 land-grant universities revealed that educational attainment is the best predictor of income. Those with advanced degrees earn more on the first job than those with bachelor's degrees. (SK)

Analysis of data from the 1990 Panel Study of Income Dynamics/Latino National Political Survey reveals that education, occupation, and metropolitan location had large positive effects on earnings of U.S.-born Mexican American men, but no effect for immigrants. Immigrants' earnings were affected positively by U.S. work experience and negatively by…

This report is a statistical analysis of the socioeconomic status of native Hawaiians in Hawaii. Data presented for native Hawaiians are compared to data for the overall state population. A section on population contains information on geographic distribution, age group distribution, ethnic distribution, residency status, and population growth. An…

The authors discuss the economic character of the nonmarket effects of education and describe a procedure for imputing the value of these nonmarket effects from estimates of quantitative impact. (SK)

Census data (1990) indicate that male African immigrants earn more than their Caribbean-born counterparts or native-born African Americans, but controlling for relevant earnings-related endowments erases the African advantage and elevates Caribbean earnings above those of the other groups. Also, African (but not Caribbean) university degree…

From a random sample of 14,596 White males aged 25-64, earnings of those who were employed full time, year round were analyzed. Results show that overeducated workers--those with educational attainments substantially above the mean for their occupations--often earn less than their adequately educated and undereducated counterparts. (SK)

This population report describes young persons between the ages of 14 and 24 born during a period of high birth rates that followed the end of the Second World War. It includes data on their numbers, racial composition, school enrollment; educational attainment; marital status, family composition, fertility, migration, voting behavior, labor force…

This report was prepared jointly by the Bureau of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is one of a series about the social and economic conditions of Negroes in the United States, and brings together the statistics available for the period between 1960 and 1970. During the 1960's Negroes continued to make substantial economic and…