Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument

John Winters

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 126, issue C, 25-27

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 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for women.

Keywords: Returns to schooling; Education; Human capital; Wages; Maternal education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.11.001

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