Persistence Bias and Schooling Returns
34 Pages Posted: 3 May 2014
Abstract
A well-established empirical literature suggests that individual wages are persistent. Several theoretical arguments support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of schooling returns does not account for this fact. This paper investigates the consequences of disregarding earnings persistence. In particular, it shows that the most commonly used static-model estimators of schooling coefficients are subject to an omitted-variable bias which can be named "persistence bias".
Keywords: schooling, wages, dynamic panel-data models
JEL Classification: C23, I21, J31
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Andini, Corrado and Andini, Corrado, Persistence Bias and Schooling Returns. IZA Discussion Paper No. 8143, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2432427 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2432427
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