Compulsory Schooling and Returns to Education: A Re-Examination
This paper re-examines the instrumental variable (IV) approach to estimating returns to education by use of compulsory school law (CSL) in the US. We show that the IV-approach amounts to a change in model specification by changing the causal status of the variable of interest. From this perspective,...
Main Authors: | Sophie van Huellen, Duo Qin |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2019-09-01
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Series: | Econometrics |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1146/7/3/36 |
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