The economic returns to schooling for Italian men. An evaluation based on instrumental variables |
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Authors: | Giorgio Brunello Raffaele Miniaci |
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Affiliation: | Universita di Padova, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Via del Santo, 22, 35123 Padua, Italy |
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Abstract: | We study the relationship between (log) hourly earnings and schooling for male household heads in Italy, using cross-sectional data from the 1993 and 1995 waves of the Bank of Italy (BI) survey on the income and wealth of Italian households. In line with international evidence, we find that OLS under-estimate the return to schooling. When the endogeneity of schooling is taken into account, the return to an additional year in school increases from 4.8% to 5.6%. This estimate is lower than the estimates tabulated by Card [Card, D., 1994. Earnings, Schooling and Ability Revisited. NBER Working Paper no. 4832.] for the United States. We also find evidence that this return increases with higher levels of educational attainment. |
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Keywords: | Education Earnings |
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