Nonlinearity in the return to education

Philip Trostel

Journal of Applied Economics, 2005, vol. 8, 191-202

Abstract: This study estimates marginal rates of return to investment in schooling in 12 countries. Significant systematic nonlinearity in the marginal rate of return is found. In particular, the marginal rate of return is increasing significantly at low levels of education, and decreasing significantly at high levels of education. This may help explain why estimates of the return to schooling are often considerably higher when instrumenting for education.

Keywords: return to education; nonlinearity; instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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