...mathematics performance at the end of high schools translates into 12 percent higher annual earnings. Murnane et al. (2000) provide evidence from the High...estimates suggest some variation with males obtaining a 15 percent increase and females a 10 percent increase per standard deviation of test performance. Lazear...

...National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79), a January 1991 supplement to the Current Population Survey, and the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972, Loewenstein and Spletzer (1999a) determine that if one takes into account differences in sample populations,...