Ability sorting and the returns to college major

DOI10.1016/J.JECONOM.2003.10.010MaRDI QIDQ2439083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Arcidiacono

Publication date 7 March 2014

Published in Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2003.10.010

zbMATH Keywords

human capitaldynamic discrete choicereturns to education

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

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