Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58467 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6588
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West German full-time employed males (BIBB/IAB survey on educational and vocational attainment and career 1998/99). Our estimate of the average partial effect (APE) of an additional year of schooling amounts to 8.7%, which is higher than OLS estimates and quite similar to conventional instrumental variable estimates.
Subjects: 
returns to schooling
human capital
heterogeneity
JEL: 
J21
J24
J31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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