Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - CESifo - 2014
different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …