The effect of college curriculum on earnings: An affinity identifier for non-ignorable non-response bias

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 479-491

  Hamermesh, Daniel S ^a,b,c   Donald, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b IZA ^*  (Germany)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings differences; Economics of education; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA;

COLLEGE CURRICULUM; ELSEVIER (CO); LINK INFORMATION; RESPONSE BIAS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 45849116876     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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