Variation in Education Costs and Future Earnings

摘要

Are policies designed to encourage students to enroll in the most remunerative professions a cost-effective use of private and public educational dollars? How would tuition vary if it were tied to the instructional costs of each degree program? These are among the questions raised by Joseph G. Altonji and Seth D. Zimmerman in The Costs of and Net Returns to College Major (NBER Working Paper No. 23029).