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The supply of college-educated workers: the roles of college premia, college costs, and risk
Despite a large measured college premium, roughly one-third of all high-school graduates currently do not enroll in any form of college. Moreover, while recent increases in the premium have been accompanied by increases in enrollment, college attainment has remained flat. Our paper studies the roles played by college premia, college costs, and risk, ceteris paribus, for college enrollment and attainment in a simple quantitative model of risky college investment. Our results suggest that most U.S. high-school completers are currently inframarginal with respect to the college premium. We find, ...
Making Progress on Diversity in the Economics Profession
Three prominent economists discuss their efforts as American Economic Association leaders to help diversify their profession.