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Measuring the Effects of Schooling on Wages for a Young Sample from Rural Guatemala

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  • Michael M. Alba

    (School of Economics, University of the Philippines, Diliman)

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In order to measure the intrinsic effect of schooling on wages for adolescents and young adults from four villages in Rural Guatemala, this paper estimates different wage speci?cations that have been suggested in the human capital literature. Successively accounted for are potential sources of bias in the estimated coef?cient of schooling, such as those arising from self-selectivity in the wage-earning sample and from the omission of innate ability, family background and the quality of schooling from the set of wage determinants. The results show that when these potential sources of bias are treated, the rate of return to schooling (inclusive its cognitive and noncognitive aspects) is about 5.9 percent for the population of adolescents and young adults in these villages.

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  • Michael M. Alba, 1996. "Measuring the Effects of Schooling on Wages for a Young Sample from Rural Guatemala," Philippine Review of Economics, University of the Philippines School of Economics and Philippine Economic Society, vol. 33(2), pages 184-231, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:phs:prejrn:v:33:y:1996:i:2:p:184-231
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