The effect of college curriculum on earnings
Subtitle: accounting for non-ignorable non-response bias
By: Daniel S. Hamermesh, Stephen G. Donald.
Contributors: Donald, Stephen G.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10809; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10809.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: College majors -- Economic aspects.; Wages -- College graduates.
Description: "We link information on the current earnings of college graduates from many cohorts to their high-school records, their detailed college records and their demographics to infer the impact of college major on earnings.  We develop an estimator to handle the potential for non-response bias and identify non-response using an affinity measure--the potential respondent's link to the organization conducting the survey.  This technique is generally applicable for adjusting for unit non-response.  In the model describing earnings, estimated using the identified (for non-response bias) selectivity adjustments, adjusted earnings differentials across college majors are less than half as large as unadjusted differentials and ten percent smaller than those that do not account for selective non-response"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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