Are Return to Schooling Concentrated Among the Most Able? A Semiparametric Analysis of the Ability-Earnings Relationship

Justin Tobias ()

Working Papers from California Irvine - School of Social Sciences

Abstract: In this paper, I explore the ability-earnings relationships semiparametrically. I find evidence of nonlinearities in these relationships which vary across levels of schooling, and argue that ability-sorting into higher education creates problems for accurately identifing the return to schooling over the full ability support. Over an ability support which is "common" to those with and without a college education, we find that the college log wage premium is increasing for the more able, and this premium grew during the period 1984-1994 for individuals at all points in the ability distribution.

Keywords: EDUCATION; WAGES; DISTRIBUTION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 I21 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2000
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Journal Article: Are Returns to Schooling Concentrated Among the Most Able? A Semiparametric Analysis of the Ability–earnings Relationships (2003)
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