Word: higher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert J. Samuelson '67 focused his article instead on the part of the study that declares that students make the same salaries regardless of the average SAT score of their classmates. He omitted Krueger's and Dale's finding that students increase their potential earnings by attending schools in higher tuition brackets...
...Students who attend schools with higher tuitions have higher incomes subsequently," Krueger said. "These results suggest that there are economic returns" to attending more expensive schools...
...There was some statistical correlation between higher tuition and subsequent higher earnings, but Krueger and Dale couldn't explain it," Samuelson said. " I don't consider it an important finding...
...applied the logic that higher tuition means higher earnings, then every college would raise its tuition by $100,000 to improve its standards," Samuelson said...
These findings support a study by Hoxby that was published this past summer. Her study sparked media interest with its declaration that students who attend elite universities are likely to earn higher salaries than graduates of lower-ranked schools...