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| Title: | | Earnings functions and rates of return  |
| Authors: | | Heckman, James Joseph Lochner, Lance J. Todd, Petra E. |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3310 |
| Abstract: | | The internal rate of return to schooling is a fundamental economic parameter that is often used to assess whether expenditure on education should be increased or decreased. This paper considers alternative approaches to estimating marginal internal rates of return for different schooling levels. We implement a general nonparametric approach to estimate marginal internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings-schooling-experience relationship. The returns obtained by the more general method differ substantially from Mincer returns in levels and in their evolution over time. They indicate relatively larger returns to graduating from high school than from graduating from college, although both have been increasing over time. |
| Subjects: | | Schooling marginal internal rate of return nonparametric estimation |
| JEL: | | C31 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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