Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables
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- 1 November 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 117 (4) , 1491-1527
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355302320935089
Abstract
Estimates of the effect of college selectivity on earnings may be biased because elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics thaKeywords
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