Wage and Employment Effects of Foreign STEM Workers
Via National Bureau of Economic Research Digest, October 2014 “Growth of foreign STEM workers by one percentage point of total employment increases growth in the wages of native college educated...
View ArticleMore and More Job Openings Require a Baccalaureate Degree but is It Justified?
A new report finds that employers increasingly are requiring a bachelor’s degree for positions that didn’t used to require baccalaureate education. A college degree, in other words, is becoming the new...
View ArticleFinishing Degrees and Finding Jobs: The Flow of Foreign IT Workers
Via National Bureau of Economic Research Digest John Bound, Murat Demirci, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner examine the role that U.S. higher education and immigration policy play in the doubling of...
View ArticleIncome Inequality and the Marriage Gap
Via Russell Sage Foundation Review A new RSF book by Johns Hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin, Labor’s Love Lost, provides an in-depth historical assessment of the rise and fall of working-class...
View ArticleDoes Increased School Spending Yield Improved Educational Outcomes?
An important conclusion from a respected researcher specializing in educational outcomes. “Using higher-quality data and an improved methodology, our findings provide new, compelling evidence that...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Obama’s Free Community College Proposal
Two days ago a frequent reader asked me about my view on President Obama’s “free community college” proposal. Here are some initial thoughts. First, it’s not totally free. If I understand it correctly...
View ArticleLimited Educational Attainment of Students from Lowest Socioeconomic Quartile
Via Andrew Kelly at Forbes: According to the Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS), which followed high school sophomores from 2002 to 2012, just over 14 percent of students from the lowest...
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Difference between Those Who Move Up from the Bottom and Those Who Don’t
The Pew Charitable Trust asks and answers the question, “What is the difference between those who move up from the bottom and those who don’t?” This research reveals: College graduates were over 5...
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Study: Breastfeeding Improves IQ and Possibly Educational Attainment
A new study supports the hypothesis that breastfeeding is associated with improved performance in intelligence tests 30 years later, and might have an important eff ect in real life, by increasing...
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