Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71437 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 03/20
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on individual earnings are reviewed for single treatment and sequential multiple treatments with and without heterogeneous returns. The sensitivity of the estimates once applied to a common dataset is then explored. We show the importance of correcting for detailed test score and family background differences and of allowing for (observable) heterogeneity in returns. We find an average return of 27% for those completing higher education versus anything less. Compared to stopping at 16 without qualifications, we find an average return to O-levels of 18%, to A-levels of 24% and to higher education of 48%.
Subjects: 
Returns to education
Evaluation
Non-experimental methods
Heterogeneity
Selection
Multiple treatments
Matching
Propensity score , Instrument variables , Control function
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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