Schools, skills and risk

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 758-770

  Hartog, Joop ^a   Vijverberg, Wim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Human capital; Return to education; Risk

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; RISK; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36549086465     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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