George Buchanan was born in the year 1881 in Myddleton Square, Islington, where his father was in medical practice. He received his early education at University College School, and subsequently at the adjacent college. During this period he worked under T. H. Key and de Morgan; he acquired much fondness for classics, notably the English classics, and he was awarded medals in biology and chemis...

China’s college admission rose from one million in 1998 to seven million in 2009, and associated with the expansion is the declining college premium for young workers. However, the college premium for senior workers increased in the same period. We show that the rising demand for skilled workers is the driving force. To explain this, we build a general equilibrium theory that considers two dime...

From 1980 to 2000, the rise in the U.S. college-high school graduate wage gap coincided with increased geographic sorting as college graduates concentrated in high wage, high rent cities. This paper estimates a structural spatial equilibrium model to determine causes and welfare consequences of this increased skill sorting. While local labor demand changes fundamentally caused the increased ski...

This paper addresses key issues concerning the physician workforce and the financing of graduate medical education. The American College of Physicians recommends the establishment of a national advisory organization to develop a coherent and coordinated national policy on the health professions workforce. Given the increasing oversupply of physicians, the College recommends that no new medical ...

Studies have suggested that obesity prevalence varies by income and educational level, although patterns might differ between high-income and low-income countries (1-3). Previous analyses of U.S. data have shown that the prevalence of obesity varied by income and education, but results were not consistent by sex and race/Hispanic origin (4). Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Exa...

From the perspective of employment stability at beginning vocational college graduates' career, this paper analyzes influencing factors, including environmental organizational factors and individual factors. Taking Wenzhou Polytechnic as an example, explores intervention strategies for in early career graduates, implementation contents paths different from four dimensions policy intervention, i...

Abstract The article uses the law of large numbers to analyze and equivalence relationship on data set measure degree uncertainty knowledge. In this way, we can between employment graduates from colleges universities professional education training. describes several collective category models college graduates’ rate enrollment scale. This provide an important theoretical reference for solving ...

for providing access to the unit record data. We thank the Upjohn Institute for providing details about the administration of the the Kalamazoo Promise program. The paper has benefitted greatly from the comments of Introduction To the surprise of the residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Kalamazoo Promise was announced on November 10, 2005. Fully funded by anonymous donors, the Kalamazoo Promis...

Our understanding about the relationship between education and lifetime earnings often neglects differences by field of study. Utilizing data that matches respondents in the Survey of Income and Program Participation to their longitudinal earnings records based on administrative tax information, we investigate the trajectories of annual earnings following the same individuals over 20 years and ...

The study was a descriptive survey, designed to determine the graduates' perceptions of the diploma in agricultural education courses offered at the Botswana College of Agriculture. The specific objectives were to: (I) determine the perceived usefulness of the courses taught at the college for teaching agricultural science, (2) determine the perceptions of the graduates about the relevance of p...