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References for Is the return to education the same for everybody?
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- Card, D. "The causal effect of education on earnings"Handbook of Labor Economics3 (1999): 1801–1863.
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- Harmon, C., Oosterbeek, H., Walker, I. "The returns to education: Microeconomics"Journal of Economic Surveys17:2 (2003): 115–156.
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- Psacharopoulos, G., Patrinos, H. A. "Returns to investment in education: A further update"Education Economics12:2 (2004): 111–134.
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- Martins, P. S., Pereira, P. T. "Does education reduce wage inequality? Quantile regression evidence from 16 countries"Labour Economics11:3 (2004): 355–371.
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- Walker, I., Zhu, Y. "Differences by degree: Evidence of the net financial rates of return to undergraduate study for England and Wales"Economics of Education Review30:6 (2011): 1177–1186.
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- Arcidiacono, P., Hotz, V. J., Kang, S. "Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals"Journal of Econometrics166:1 (2012): 3–16.
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- Grogger, J., Eide, E. "Changes in college skills and the rise in the college wage premium"Journal of Human Resources30:2 (1995): 280–310.
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- Altonji, J. G., Blom, E., Meghir, C. "Heterogeneity in human capital investments: High school curriculum, college major, and careers"Annual Review of Economics4:1 (2012): 185–223.
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- Webber, D. A. "The lifetime earnings premia of different majors: Correcting for selection based on cognitive, noncognitive, and unobserved factors"Labour Economics28 (2014): 14–23.
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- Hoekstra, M. "The effect of attending the flagship state university on earnings: A discontinuity-based approach"The Review of Economics and Statistics91:4 (2009): 717–724.
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- Brewer, D. J., Eide, E. R., Ehrenberg, R. G. "Does it pay to attend an elite private college? Cross-cohort evidence on the effects of college type on earnings"Journal of Human Resources34:1 (1999): 104–123.
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- Robst, J. "Education and job match: The relatedness of college major and work"Economics of Education Review26:4 (2007): 397–407.
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- Rothstein, J., Rouse, C. E. "Constrained after college: Student loans and early-career occupational choices"Journal of Public Economics95:1 (2011): 149–163.
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- Card, D. "The causal effect of education on earnings"Handbook of Labor Economics3 (1999): 1801–1863.
Additional References
- Arcidiacono, P. "Ability sorting and the returns to college major"Journal of Econometrics121:1 (2004): 343–375.
- Ashenfelter, O., Harmon, C., Oosterbeek, H. "A review of estimates of the schooling/earnings relationship, with tests for publication bias"Labour Economics6:4 (1999): 453–470.
- Avery, C., Turner, S. "Student loans: Do college students borrow too much—Or not enough?"The Journal of Economic Perspectives26:1 (2012): 165–192.
- Berger, M. C. "Predicted future earnings and choice of college major"Industrial and Labor Relations Review41:3 (1988): 418–429.
- Black, D. A., Smith, J. A. "Estimating the returns to college quality with multiple proxies for quality"Journal of Labor Economics24:3 (2006): 701–728.
- Chevalier, A., Harmon, C., Walker, I., Zhu, Y. "Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?"The Economic Journal114:499 (2004): F499–F517.
- Ehrenberg, R. G.Tuition Rising. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Ehrenberg, R. G. "Econometric studies of higher education"Journal of Econometrics121:1 (2004): 19–37.
- Ehrenberg, R. G. "American higher education in transition"The Journal of Economic Perspectives26:1 (2012): 193–216.
- Harmon, C., Walker, I. "Estimates of the economic return to schooling for the United Kingdom"The American Economic Review85:5 (1995): 1278–1286.
- Monks, J. "The returns to individual and college characteristics: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth"Economics of Education Review19:3 (2000): 279–289.
- Montmarquette, C., Cannings, K., Mahseredjian, S. "How do young people choose college majors?"Economics of Education Review21:6 (2002): 543–556.
- Rumberger, R. W., Thomas, S. L. "The economic returns to college major, quality and performance: A multilevel analysis of recent graduates"Economics of Education Review12:1 (1993): 1–19.
- Thomas, S. L. "Deferred costs and economic returns to college major, quality, and performance"Research in Higher Education41:3 (2000): 281–313.