Education correlates strongly with most important social and economic outcomes such as
economic success, health, family stability, and social connections. Theories of stratification …

For the past 20 years, social scientists have devoted increasing attention to the links
between type of postsecondary education received and socioeconomic inequalities …

Human capital theory assumes that education determines the marginal productivity of labour
and this determines earnings. Since the 1960s, it has dominated the economics, and policy …

Worldwide participation in higher education now includes one-third of the age cohort and is
growing at an unprecedented rate. The tendency to rapid growth, leading towards high …

The world is rapidly becoming more educated at higher education level. In nearly all
countries with per capita GDP of more than about $5,000 per annum there is a longterm …

Data from 44 societies are used to explore sex segregation by field of study. Contrary to
accounts linking socioeconomic modernization to a “degendering” of public-sphere …

The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education is a longer
version of the three Clark Kerr Lectures on Higher Education delivered on September 30 …

Our understanding about the relationship between education and lifetime earnings often
neglects differences by field of study. Utilizing data that match respondents in the Survey of …

The purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of the association between
major field of study in college and early career earnings among a sample of academically …

While Income inequality among college graduates is well documented, inequality in
occupational status remains largely unexplored. We examine whether and how …