This article provides a comprehensive review of the socio-economic literature on the student
determinants of tertiary education dropout, in order to help research scholars better …

Recent stories of soaring student debt levels and under-placed college graduates have
caused some to question whether a college education is still a sound investment. In this …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

When I started writing this book, I knew I'd need to read piles of research but failed to foresee
the enormity of the piles. Education isn't just a major industry; it inspires researchers' …

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that
synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches …

Motivated by the large differences in labor market outcomes across college majors, we
survey the literature on the demand for and return to high school and postsecondary …

Rising college enrollment over the last quarter century has not been met with a proportional
increase in college completion. Comparing the high school classes of 1972 and 1992, we …

This article provides one of the first rigorous estimations of the labor-market returns to
community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimations of the returns to the …

Using data from the “Monitoring the Future” surveys, this paper shows that from the 1980s to
the 2000s, the mode of girls' high school GPA distribution has shifted from “B” to “A,” …

Research examining the educational attainment of low-income students has often focused
on financial factors such as credit constraints. We use unique longitudinal data to provide …