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Comment author: FrameBenignly 03 April 2015 12:13:07AM 0 points [-]

If you're planning to do a series of blog posts about this, I recommend payscale's college career data although you may have to make selection effect adjustments. Mean SAT or GRE scores for each group might be a good adjustment. I also believe they count individuals who graduate but fail the licensing exam. For my profession, the starting salary looked about $10,000 too low. That's my best explanation for the disparity. Bryan Caplan has been writing a book about education. Several of his Econlog blog posts would be useful to you.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 04 April 2015 05:44:21PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the tip about payscale, and Bryan Caplan's posts, I'll take a look. Let me know if there are any specific posts you would recommend.

Comment author: FrameBenignly 05 April 2015 03:49:16PM 0 points [-]

Just glancing through it I came across this: http://www.bcaplan.com/returns.htm

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 05 April 2015 10:20:49PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the specific reference!

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