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Education and Self-Selection [статья]
Опубликовано на портале: 05-02-2007
Sherwin Rosen, Rober J. Willis
Journal of Political Economy.
1979.
Vol. 87.
No. 5.
P. 7-36.
A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory
of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved
components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First,
expected lifetime earnings gains influence the decision to attend college. Second,
those who did not attend college would have earned less than measurably similar people
who did attend, while those who attended college would have earned less as high school
graduates than measurably similar people who stopped after high school. Positive
selection in both groups implies no "ability bias" in these data.
