Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns

William R. Emmons, Ana Hernández Kent, Lowell R. Ricketts

2019 · 40 citations · 18 references

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The college income premium is the extra income earned by a family whose head has a college degree over the income earned by an otherwise similar family whose head does not have a college degree. This premium remains positive but has declined for recent graduates. 

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