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Interpreting degree effects in the returns to education

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Light, Audrey - 2009

Researchers often identify degree effects by including degree attainment (D) and years of schooling (S) in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these measures is not well understood. We argue that S is negatively correlated with ability among degree-holders because the most...

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The GED

Heckman, James Joseph; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, … - 2010

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

measure 'income'). This is the case even when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for …/or whether we use instrumental variables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, we find …

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Returns to education in professional football

Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2011

After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL) by declaring for the draft. We analyze the starting salaries and signing...

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Real wage inequality

Moretti, Enrico - 2008

A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...

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Estimating the veteran effect with endogenous schooling when instruments are potentially weak

Chaudhuri, Saraswata; Rose, Elaina - 2009

Instrumental variables estimates of the effect of military service on subsequent civilian earnings either omit schooling or treat it as exogenous. In a more general setting that also allows for the treatment of schooling as endogenous, we estimate the veteran effect for men who were born between...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

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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 …

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Is the GED an effective route to postsecondary education for school dropouts?

Tyler, John; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2008

potential biases, our approach is to base our estimates on a set of academically at risk students who are very similar in the 8 …

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Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earning data

Dale, Stacy; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between the college that students attended in 1976 and the earnings they … estimate the return to various measures of college selectivity for a more recent cohort of students: those who entered college … in 1989. We also estimate the return to college selectivity for the 1976 cohort of students, but over a longer time …

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