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This paper argues in favor of a dynamic specification of the Mincer equation, where past observed earnings play the role of additional explanatory variable for current observed earnings. A dynamic approach offers an explanation why the return to schooling in terms of observed earnings is not...
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This paper provides further evidence on the positive impact of schooling on within-groups wage dispersion in Portugal, using data on male workers from the 2001 wave of the European Community Household Panel. The issue of schooling endogeneity is taken into account by using the newest available...
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endogenous variables and nonadditive errors in the outcome equation. It is suitable, e.g., for estimation of the average returns … to college education when they are heterogeneous across individuals and correlated with the schooling choice. The …
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We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …
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time of entering secondary education. While this seems like a reasonable research design, we demonstrate that it is …
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-2004. Finally, while workers with all education levels experienced an increase in returns of roughly the same magnitude during 1983 …-1993, the increase in returns is much higher for workers with tertiary and secondary education during 1993-2004. The inequality … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …
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In this paper, we identify female long-term wage returns to college education using the educational expansion between … account for women who select into employment due to having a college education, which we call college-induced selection into … college education than without. Taking this CISE into account, we find wage returns of 6–12 percent per year of education …
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migration, occupational choice, and earnings where, upon completing their education, individuals choose a location in which to … learning methods that allow for model selection and estimation simultaneously in a non-parametric setting. I find that OLS … estimates of the returns to business and STEM majors relative to education majors are biased upward by 15% on average. Using …
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This paper examines the labor-market returns to a new form of postsecondary vocational education, vocational master …
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-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrollment intentions and realized enrollment. We find that our treatment causally affects …
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