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Students who plan to seek more education than needed for their career earn more money

  • Written by Soobin Kim, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Michigan State University
Extra education has been shown to pay off in the long run.John O'Boyle/Flickr

When it comes to career success, it pays to aim for more education than what you need for the job you want.

That is the key finding of a new study that I and several colleagues did by analyzing the salaries of high school students who expected to get more education than...

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