It's not just the money: the benefits of college education to individuals and to society
Education has numerous beneficial effects, and many of these have been estimated in large academic literatures. But research articles typically carefully examine just one effect. This report provides a more complete picture by highlighting many of the frequently unmeasured and ignored benefits of college attendance. It organizes and compiles the evidence from several different literatures into one place. The report's chapters cover: (1) earnings; (2) fringe benefits; (3) employment; (4) health; (5) other private benefits; (6) productivity spillovers; (7) fiscal externalities; (8) crime; (9) ph ... Show more
Authors: Trostel, Philip
Published: Indianapolis, Indiana, Lumina Foundation, 2015
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 72 p.
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