use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically discriminate' among workers. The pure … credential value of education will depend on how quickly firms learn. To obtain information on employer learning, we work with a … education. The time path of the coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable provides information about the rate at …

We measure the effects of parental education on the education profile of wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from … holding family background constant. We obtained mixed evidence on whether parental education raises the return to education …

education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the …