Research " THE RATE OF RETURN TO EDUCATION AND THE GENDER EARNINGS DIFFERENTIAL : A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPULIC OF IRELAND "

THE RATE OF RETURN TO EDUCATION AND THE GENDER EARNINGS DIFFERENTIAL : A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPULIC OF IRELAND I am very much indebted to David Card, for limitless advice and support throughout my graduate school career. The research here has benefited in innumerable ways from his many suggestions, as have I. It is hard to imagine a better advisor. I am grateful to the members of my various committees—Alan Auerbach, John Quigley, Steve Raphael, Emmanuel Saez, and Eugene Smolensky—for reading drafts that were far too long and too unpolished, and for nevertheless finding many errors and omissions....