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 Title: Returns to Schooling: A Peculiar Deviation from Linearity Authors: Park, Jin Huem Keywords: wage level and structurewage differentials by skilltrainingoccupation Issue Date: 1-Oct-1994 Series/Report no.: Working Papers (Princeton University. Industrial Relations Section) ; 335 Abstract: Results reported in this paper indicate that the returns-to-schooling profile exhibits a peculiar departure from log-linearity. In particular, for white males, the return to the 15th year of schooling (the third year of college) seems to be much smaller than that predicted by log-linearity. That is, people with 15 years of schooling do not appear to earn any more than those with 14 years of schooling. I discuss several theories and evidence that may explain the peculiarity. Amongst them, measurement error in schooling seems the most plausible. URI: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp016682x393m Appears in Collections: IRS Working Papers

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