Word: krueger
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Newsweek reporter 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...
Yesterday, Hoxby questioned the value of asking which school offers higher returns within a given tuition bracket, as Krueger's study...
...study, "The Return to Attending a More Selective College: 1960 to the Present," Hoxby showed that attending a top-tier school does pay off in the long run. But Hoxby's definition of a top-tier school was more inclusive than that of Krueger and Dale--her top tier included their system's top three tiers...