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Estimating the Variance of Wages in the Presence of Selection and Unobservable Heterogeneity

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Paper provided by University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number 03-01.

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  1. Oreopoulos, Philip, 2007. "Do dropouts drop out too soon? Wealth, health and happiness from compulsory schooling," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 91(11-12), pages 2213-2229, December.

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