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Title: Estimating the Education-Earnings Equation Using Geographic Variation
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Doyle, William R. Skinner, Benjamin T. |
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Estimating the Education-Earnings Equation Using Geographic Variation Working Paper, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, August 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Peabody College, Vanderbilt University Keyword(s): College Education; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Geocoded Data Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We expand on the literature on the causal impact of postsecondary education on earnings by introducing a richer set of location-based measures as instruments for years of education. Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997, we implement six different sets of instruments based on geographic variation: presence of a four-year or two-year college in the county, inverse log distance to in-state two year colleges, and inverse log distance to all colleges. We find that these alternative measures yield differing estimates of the impact of educational attainment on earnings. |
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Doyle, William R. and Benjamin T. Skinner. "Estimating the Education-Earnings Equation Using Geographic Variation." Working Paper, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, August 2015. |