Estimating the return to endogenous schooling decisions via conditional second moments

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1047-1065

  Klein, Rogers ^a   Vella, Francis ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ENDOGENOUS CUE; ESTIMATION METHOD; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SKILLED LABOR; WAGE DETERMINATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70449448194     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.44.4.1047     Document Type: Article

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