A study of Florida high-schoolers whose grades were just good enough for admission to a public university shows that higher education provided significant financial benefits for these students: eight to 14 years after high school, their earnings were 22pc higher than those of peers who hadn’t gone to college, with male students showing the largest gains, says Seth D. Zimmerman of Yale University.

(Source: Journal of Labour Economics)

Published in Dawn, Economic & Business, October 20th, 2014