Economic returns to schooling in urban China: OLS and the instrumental variables approach

China Economic Review

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-152

  CHEN, Guifu ^a   HAMORI, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

China Health and Nutrition Survey; Instrumental variables; Returns to schooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349167747     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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