The Education Trust

See the Wikipedia entry on compulsory education for a table of the ages of obligatory education around the world. The visualization, from Card 20, makes an attempt to pin down the relationship between education and earnings, by comparing wages across education levels, genders and age groups. The knowledge used for this figure comes from the March Current Population Surveys in the US. Education levels correspond to people with 10, 12 and 16 years of education. The marks present Education averages for each corresponding group, and the sleek strains show the predictions made by a easy econometric model …