Identifying and Estimating the Distributions of Ex Post and Ex Ante Returns to Schooling

Labour Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 870-893

  Cunha, Flavio ^a   Heckman, James J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agent Information Sets; Ex Ante Returns to Schooling; Ex Post Returns to Schooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448938900     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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