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How Convincing is The Evidence Linking Education and Income?

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  • Orley Ashenfelter

    (Princeton University)

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Is the correlation between income and educational attainment a result of the payoff to investments in schooling? Since the experiment of randomly selecting individuals to go to school cannot be performed, non-experimental methods must be used to estimate the economic returns to schooling. This paper reviews new studies that measure the effect of schooling on income (1) by using comparisons of brothers, fathers and sons, and twins and (2) that focus on natural experiments. These studies provide very credible evidence that schooling does increase incomes and that earlier studies may have under- estimated the role of schooling in determining incomes.

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  • Orley Ashenfelter, 1991. "How Convincing is The Evidence Linking Education and Income?," Working Papers 672, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section..
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    1. Appleton, Simon, "undated". "User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring and Voucher Systems in Education," WIDER Working Papers 295459, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Al Mamun (a) and MD. Arfanuzzaman (b), 2020. "The Effects of Human Capital and Social Factors on the Household Income of Bangladesh: An Econometric Analysis," Journal of Economic Development, Chung-Ang Unviersity, Department of Economics, vol. 45(3), pages 29-49, September.
    3. Elchanan Cohn & John Addison, 1998. "The Economic Returns to Lifelong Learning in OECD Countries," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(3), pages 253-307.

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    Keywords

    schooling investments; returns to schooling;

    JEL classification:

    • H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures

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