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Tracking the Returns to Education in the 1990s: Bridging the Gap between the New and Old Current Population Survey Education Items

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  • Harley Frazis
  • Jay Stewart

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The Current Population Survey (CPS) is used for many studies examining trends in the returns to education. The CPS changed its education item in 1992. This paper develops adjustment factors for earnings at different education levels to make pre- and post- 1992 earnings comparable. To accomplish this, contradictory results from alternative data sources are analyzed and, to the extent possible, reconciled. The adjustments reduce the estimated growth in the College/High School earnings ratio between 1989 and 1993 by between 29 and 48 percent for men and between 44 and 73 percent for women.

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  • Harley Frazis & Jay Stewart, 1999. "Tracking the Returns to Education in the 1990s: Bridging the Gap between the New and Old Current Population Survey Education Items," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 34(3), pages 629-641.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:34:y:1999:i:3:p:629-641
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    1. Jaeger, David A., 2003. "Estimating the returns to education using the newest current population survey education questions," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 78(3), pages 385-394, March.
    2. Jay Stewart, 2006. "Male nonworkers: Who are they and who supports them?," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 43(3), pages 537-552, August.

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