Measuring the Effects of Schooling on Wages for a Young Sample from Rural Guatemala

Michael Alba
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Michael Alba: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman

No 199701, UP School of Economics Discussion Papers from University of the Philippines School of Economics

Abstract: In order to measure the intrinsic effect of schooling on wages for adolescents and young adults from four villages in rural Guatemala, this paper estimates different wage specifications that have been suggested in the human capital literature. Successively accounted for are potential sources of bias in the estimated coefficient of schooling, such as those arising from self-selectivity in the wage-earning sample and from the omission of innate ability, family background, and the quality of schooling from the set of wage determinants. The result show that when these potential sources of bias are treated, the rate of return to schooling is about 5.9 percent for the population of adolescents and young adults in these villages.

Date: 1997-01
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Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1997-01, January 1997

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