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Estimating Returns to Schooling: When Does the Career Begin?
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Light, Audrey – Economics of Education Review, 1998
Uses National Longitudinal Study of Youth data to determine how estimated returns to schooling are influenced by career starting date choice. Defines schooling and experience measures for four alternative starting dates. Uses results to estimate standard wage model for samples of white and nonwhite men. Returns to schooling increase dramatically…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Males, Mathematical Models
High School Employment, High School Curriculum, and Post-School Wages.
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Light, Audrey – Economics of Education Review, 1999
Uses data for male high-school graduates to estimate a wage model that includes detailed measures of high-school coursework and postschool work experience as covariates. High-school employment's direct effect on subsequent wages is small and relatively short-lived. Vocational courses and postgraduation work experience provide indirect benefits.…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Education Work Relationship, High School Graduates, High Schools