Daily Data Dump - Thursday

Should you go to an Ivy League School? "Clearly, going to a top-ranked school seems to deliver far higher earnings at age 28 than poorer ranked schools. In fact, the relationship is highly non-linear. Contrary to what you may have heard (“All top-ranked schools are the same”); it in fact looks like the difference between top-ranked Harvard and 9th ranked Dartmouth is on the order of ~$4,000 a year (perhaps $100,000-$200,000 over the course of a lifetime?)." The Other Social Network. Speaking of non-linearities: "And of course there's the H-Factor. "I think the name had a lot to do with it," says Ting. "When we go to a school and say this site is from Columbia, it doesn't carry the same marketing punch as, This is from Harvard." Bronze Age Mediterraneans may have visited Stonehenge. "The new evidence shows that ‘the Boy with the Amber necklace’ spent his childhood in ...