Late Bloomers. The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life.

Autor/inn/en	Bárány, Zsófia L.; Buchinsky, Moshe; Corblet, Pauline
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Late Bloomers. The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research (2023) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w31874
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w31874
Schlagwörter	Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Bildungsertrag; Studium; Erwachsenenalter; Arbeitspapier; Ethnische Gruppe; Erwachsener; USA
Abstract	It is generally agreed upon that most individuals who acquire a college degree do so in their early 20s. Despite this consensus, we show that in the US from the 1930 birth cohort onwards a large fraction - around 20% - of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30. We explore the implications of this phenomenon. First, we show that these so-called late bloomers have significantly contributed to the narrowing of gender and racial gaps in the college share, despite the general widening of the racial gap. Second, late bloomers are responsible for more than half of the increase in the aggregate college share from 1960 onwards. Finally, we show that the returns to having a college degree vary depending on the age at graduation. Ignoring the existence of late bloomers therefore leads to a significant underestimation of the returns to college education for those finishing college in their early 20s.
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Update	2024/1