The return to schooling: estimates from a sample of young Australian twins

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The return to schooling: estimates from a sample of young Australian twins

This study uses a sample of young Australian twins to examine whether the findings reported in Ashenfelter and Krueger (1994) and Miller, Mulvey, and Martin (1994) are robust to choice of sample and dependent variable. The economic return to schooling in Australia is between 5 and 7 percent when acc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Miller, Paul, Mulvey, C., Martin, N.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier BV * North-Holland 2006
Subjects:	Twins Ability Wages
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15697

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