Returns to schooling in Spain: How reliable are instrumental variable estimates?

Labour

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 747-770

  Pons, Empar ^a   Gonzalo, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

SPAIN;

EID: 0036923898     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9914.00215     Document Type: Article

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