Document Type
Article
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to understand how a college degree will affect an individual’s earnings. I use data from the American Community Survey and a human capital model to investigate the question. Earnings increase around 60 percent when an individual earns any form of college degree. There are other factors that influence both income and an individual’s decision to continue education after high school, but this model suggests that furthering education should lead to higher earnings.
Publication Date
Spring 2015
Journal Title
Major Themes in Economics
Volume
17
Issue
1
First Page
55
Last Page
63
Copyright
©2015 by Major Themes in Economics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Lewis, Jennifer
(2015)
"By How Much Does a College Degree Affect Earnings?,"
Major Themes in Economics, 17, 55-63.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mtie/vol17/iss1/6