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Higher education and earnings; college as an investment and a screening device, by Paul Taubman and Terence Wales.

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Main Authors: Taubman, Paul, 1939-, Wales, Terence (Author)
Corporate Author: Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, McGraw-Hill [1974]
Series:General series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; no. 101.
Subjects:
College graduates > Employment > United States.
High school graduates > Employment > United States.
Wages > Effect of education on > United States.
Education > Economic aspects > United States.
Wages > College graduates > United States.
College graduates > Employment.
Education > Economic aspects.
High school graduates > Employment.
Wages > College graduates.
Wages > Effect of education on.
United States.
Ensino Superior.
Table of Contents:
  • Earnings: higher education, mental ability, and screening
  • The human-capital approach to higher education
  • Effects of education and mental ability on income: the evidence from the Wolfle-Smith data
  • The NBER-TH sample: a description
  • The NBER-TH sample regression results
  • Age-earnings profiles
  • Rates of return to education based on the NBER-TH data
  • Within-occupation regressions
  • Education as a screening device.

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