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Title: Estimating the Returns to Schooling Using Cohort-level Maternal Education as an Instrument

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: This paper examines effects of schooling on wages instrumenting for individual schooling using cohort-level maternal schooling from previous censuses. Results suggest that an additional year of schooling increases hourly wages by 1- percent for men and 12.6 percent for women.

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Authors: Winters, John V.

Periodical (Full): Economics Letters

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Volume: 126

Pages: 25-27

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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