Season of birth, schooling and earnings

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 641-660

  Plug, Erik J S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3560; Education and monetary rewards; I20; Instrumental variable technique; J24; J31; Maturity and compulsory schooling effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042904673     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(01)00060-5     Document Type: Article

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