Using Unemployment Rates as Instruments to Estimate Returns to Schooling

被引:14
作者
Arkes, Jeremy [1 ]
机构
[1] Naval Postgrad Sch, Grad Sch Business & Publ Policy, Monterey, CA 93943 USA
关键词
ECONOMIC RETURN; TWINS; IMPACT; SAMPLE; MARKET; EDUCATION; ABILITY; WEAK;
D O I
10.4284/sej.2010.76.3.711
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
I use state unemployment rates during a person's teenage years to estimate the returns to schooling. A higher unemployment rate reduces the opportunity costs of attending school. Using the same 1980 Census data set that Angrist and Krueger (1991) use, I also estimate returns to schooling with a modified version of their quarter-of-birth instrument. The estimates from the two-stage least squares (2SLS) model using the unemployment rate and the model using the quarter-of-birth instruments are almost identical. In addition, these 2SLS estimates are larger than the ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates, supporting this counterintuitive, yet prevalent, result in the literature.
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页码:711 / 722
页数:12
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