Empirical investigations of the role of human capital require accurate measures across countries and over time. This column describes a new dataset on educational attainment for 146 countries at ...

Students from high-income families are considerably more likely than students from low-income families to earn a college degree. As reported in “Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United ...

The past 15 years of efforts to improve college access and success could be deemed the “attainment goal era,” as nearly every state in the country set an ambitious goal to increase the share of their ...

An increase in college degree attainment between 2020-2020 is linked to a $14.2 trillion gain in lifetime earnings, according to s new study. The proportion of U.S. adults with a college degree ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Higher educational attainment was associated with reduced lifetime CVD risk. The analysis did not account for ...

The National Center for Education Statistics regularly publishes status high school completion rates (National Center for Education Statistics, 2009a). Researchers interested in gauging the ...

Using the criteria of high school and college completion, U.S. adults are better educated than ever before. In 2012, 31% of all adults ages 25 and older have completed at least a bachelor’s degree, up ...

The July jobs report showed that the unemployment rate is the highest for workers without a high school diploma, at 15.4%.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. How can Texas rank last in the nation — 51st — in the percentage of ...

A massive new research analysis finds that formal education, in general, remains “the most consistent, robust, and durable method yet to be identified for raising intelligence.” Children who have a ...