## Abstract Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) we introduce and estimate various Bayesian hierarchical models that investigate the nature of unobserved heterogeneity in returns to schooling. We consider a variety of possible forms for the heterogeneity, some motivated
Replication of the results in ‘learning about heterogeneity in returns to schooling’
✍ Scribed by Joshua C. C. Chan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 58 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0883-7252
- DOI
- 10.1002/jae.847
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A recent article (Koop and Tobias, 2004) proposes a direct way to characterize the extent of heterogeneity in returns to education. They investigate the adequacy of several competing models and conclude that returns to schooling are heterogeneous and are best modelled as a bivariate normal distribution. The results of this replication paper basically agree with the authors. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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