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The relationship between school performance and future wages in Brazil

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  • Andréa Zaitune Curi

    (Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP) – FGV, Brazil)

  • Naercio Menezes-Filho

    (Insper and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Abstract

This paper examines whether the quality of learning, measured by the scores obtained by the 1978 generation at the end of high school (1995), affects the wages received by this cohort five years later, measured in the 2000 Census. We compute average wages and proficiency for each state/race/gender cell and correct the selection bias caused by migrations and by the high educational level of the sample using Dahl (2002)’s model. School inputs are used as instrumental variables for proficiency. The results show that the average test scores impact wages, with an estimated elasticity of 0.3.

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  • Andréa Zaitune Curi & Naercio Menezes-Filho, 2014. "The relationship between school performance and future wages in Brazil," Economia, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics], vol. 15(3), pages 261-274.
    • Handle: RePEc:anp:econom:v:15:y:2014:3:261_274
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    1. Moraes, Ricardo Kalil & Wanke, Peter Fernandes & Faria, João Ricardo, 2021. "Unveiling the endogeneity between social-welfare and labor efficiency: Two-stage NDEA neural network approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).

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    Keywords

    School performance; Wages; Selection bias; Education production function; Roy model;
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    JEL classification:

    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General

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