Heterogeneous Returns to U.S. College Selectivity and the Value of Graduate Degree Attainment
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returns to education; heterogeneous treatment effect; selection; data combination;All these keywords.
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- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- C30 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2014-12-29 (Education)
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