From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!dkw
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.cse
Title: Re: degrees to be part of divorce settlements?
Article-I.D.: brunix.1554
Posted: Tue Feb 15 12:42:18 1983
Received: Fri Feb 18 06:58:58 1983
References: hplabsb.1361

Whether a degree is an investment in human capital, or simply a method of
certification  is irrelevant to the argument over its value in a divorce case.
While to an employer the degree may simply be certification, to the employee
it is a capital investment in the sense that it increases his salary.  The
fact that it has nothing to do with productivity (if true) is irrelevant to
the employee.
   Therefore, whatever its real advantage to society, one should consider
education to be a capital expenditure as far as divorce settlements.