Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in the Return to Schooling

Blackburn, McKinley L.; Neumark, David

doi:10.1086/298306

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“…An F-test of this restriction cannot reject equality of the coefficients. approach has been used by Blackburn and Neumark (1993) using the NLSY data examining the returns to education. To the extent that test scores capture otherwise unobservable productivity-related characteristics, they can reduce the downward bias on the smoking coefficient.…”

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More Bad News for Smokers? The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Wages

Levine¹,

Gustafson²,

Velenchik³

1997

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Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, the authors examine the effect of smoking on wages. Their analysis controls for differences in individual characteristics that may be correlated with both smoking and wages, including unobservable person-specific characteristics that are constant over time, and unobservable characteristics that are constant within a family. Estimates from alternative specifications indicate that smoking reduced wages by roughly 4-8%. Empirical tests of three potential explanations for this finding yield no conclusive results.

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More Bad News for Smokers? The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Wages

Levine¹,

Gustafson²,

Velenchik³

1997

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“… 16 Relevant work on earnings includes Levy and Murnane (1992), Card and Lemieux (1996), Blackburn and Neumark (1993), Grogger and Eide (1995), Murnane, Willett, and Levy (1995), and Heckman (1995). This work presents diverse findings about change in the effects of ability on earnings and the importance of such change for inequality of earnings.…”

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Causes and Consequences of Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Course

Hauser¹

2010

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Research on variation in cognitive abilities has focused largely on their genetic or experiential sources and on their economic consequences. This article takes a broader look at the consequences of cognitive ability—IQ—across the life course. Contrary to received wisdom, the effects of IQ on economic success are almost entirely mediated by educational attainment. Among persons with equal levels of schooling, IQ has little influence on job performance, occupational standing, earnings, or wealth. But there are other, sometimes surprising consequences of IQ throughout adult life. The long-term correlates of adolescent cognition include drinking behavior, survey participation, Internet use, and the timing of menopause. These are surveyed primarily using findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.

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“…There is a myriad of evidence that the economic returns to education increased in the 1980s, particularly the return to graduating from a four-year college or university (Blackburn and Neumark 1993;Blackburn, Bloom, and Freeman 1990). There is also some evidence that blacks lost ground to whites in terms of earnings in the 1980s (Bound and Freeman 1992;Blau and Beller 1992;Smith 1991).…”

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The Effect of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities on Future Wages of Black Students

Constantine¹

1995

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the effect of attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) on future wages of black students. She finds that although the pre-college characteristics of students who attended HBCUs predicted lower wages than did the pre-college characteristics of students who attended mixed or historically white four-year institutions, the value added in future wages from attending HBCUs was 38% higher than that from attending traditionally white or mixed institutions for the average black student graduating from high school in 1972. This evidence that HBCUs played an important role in the labor market success of black students in the 1970s, the author argues, should be carefully weighed in decisions affecting the future of these institutions.

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Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in the Return to Schooling

Cited by 176 publications

References 11 publications

More Bad News for Smokers? The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Wages

More Bad News for Smokers? The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Wages

Causes and Consequences of Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Course

The Effect of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities on Future Wages of Black Students

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