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Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to EducationJohn CawleyCornell University - College of Human Ecology, Department of Policy Analysis & Management (PAM); Cornell University - College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Economics; NBER; IZA James J. HeckmanUniversity of Chicago - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); American Bar Foundation; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Edward VytlacilYale University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) January 1998 NBER Working Paper No. w6388 Abstract: This paper examines the contribution of the rise in the return to ability to the rise in the economic return to education. All of the evidence on this question comes from panel data sets in which a small collection of adjacent birth cohorts is followed over time. The structure of the data creates an identification problem that makes it impossible to identify main age and time effects and to isolate all possible age-time interactions. In addition, many education-ability cells are empty due to the stratification of ability with educational attainment. These empty cells or identification problems are literature and produce a variety of different estimates. We test and reject widely used linearity assumptions invoked to identify the contribution of the return to ability on the return to schooling. Using nonparametric methods find little evidence that the rise in the return to education is centered among the most able.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 43 working papers seriesDate posted: July 25, 2000Suggested CitationContact Information
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