Quantile regression with sample selection: Estimating women's return to education in the U.S

Empirical Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 87-113

  Buchinsky, Moshe ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonparametric selection correction; Quantile regression; Return to education

Indexed keywords

INCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; WOMENS STATUS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141648291     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001810000061     Document Type: Article

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