Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James; Navarro, Salvador - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of variability in returns to schooling is...