Dr. Sandra Black’s work on lifetime earnings and school starting age.
Dr. Sandra Black, UT-Austin economics professor, looks at the impact of school starting age and family background on work earnings. From her work:
We find that if you enter the labor market later, as a result you have less experience and so you get paid less than the people who are the same age who started earlier, but by age 30 you’ve caught up. – Dr. Sandra Black
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