The Freakonomics site has a new podcast (audio and transcript available here) that looks at the costs and benefits of going to college. The podcast touches on issues that I’ve been thinking about a fair amount lately. One quote particularly caught my eye. Berkeley economist David Card makes two points that Heather Boushey and I […]
Over the last few days, several blogs (Kevin Drum, Brad Plumer at WonkBlog, Andrew Sullivan, and ThinkProgress) have commented on the chart below, which Janelle Jones and I prepared for a recent CEPR report (pdf) we wrote on “Good Jobs.” The chart shows that over the last three decades the share of college-educated workers with […]
Within the economics profession, the standard explanation for rising inequality over the last three decades is that we have been experiencing a long-term shortage of college-educated workers. Technological progress, the story goes, has increased demand for the kind of highly skilled workers that colleges produce, but, young people have not been going to college in […]
