Evidence on the effect of young adults' wages on their college attendance decisions

Mahdy Mohanty and Miles Finney

Applied Economics Letters, 1997, vol. 4, issue 12, 733-735

Abstract: Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this note demonstrates that the college attendance decision of employed young adults depends partly on their wage. We further find that the wage quadratically impacts the decision to attend college.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1080/758528717

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