Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21440 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 500
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education question. These new questions allow researchers to come closer to the ?highest grade completed? measure available before 1992. Using the new information, the average imputed ?highest grade completed? is one-tenth grade greater and the estimated return to education .6 to 1 percentage points lower than when using only the post-1991 ?highest degree received? question.
Subjects: 
Current Population Survey
education
JEL: 
J3
I2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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