Smoking, discount rates, and returns to education

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 561-566

  Fersterer, Josef ^a   Winter Ebmer, Rudolf ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ability bias; Discount rates; Instrumental variables; Returns to education

Indexed keywords

DISCOUNT RATE; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SMOKING;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0142185970     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7757(02)00072-9     Document Type: Article

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