both the statistics and econometrics literatures. It has by now reached a level of maturity that makes it an important tool …

This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education. The focus is on … interpretation of the results. We start by considering the estimation of the returns to education both within the context of a … of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

, Education, Environment, Labor, Health, and Public Finance, but are still rare in Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics. We …

The average effect of intervention or treatment is a parameter of interest in both epidemiology and econometrics. A key … nonlinear models. Most latent index models commonly applied to qualitative outcomes in econometrics fail to satisfy these …

Economics and history both strive to understand causation: economics using instrumental variables econometrics and …

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980's and the early 1990's …