Using unemployment rates as instruments to estimate returns to schooling

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 711-722

  Arkes, Jeremy ^a  

^a Graduate School of Business and Public Policy   (United States)

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EID: 76949083880     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4284/sej.2010.76.3.711     Document Type: Article

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