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.
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.
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.
Just glancing through it I came across this: http://www.bcaplan.com/returns.htm
Thanks for the specific reference!