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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003
This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274202
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Earnings functions and rates of return
Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - 2008
internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274248
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Earnings functions, rates of return and treatment effects: the Mincer equation and beyond
Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - 2005
of return that takes into account tuition, income taxes and forms of uncertainty. We also contrast estimates based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275688
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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James Joseph; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
complementarities in skill formation. Investments in the human capital of children should expand relative to investment in older workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274258