Replication data for: Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins: Comment

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Vikesh Amin

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Amin, Vikesh. Replication data for: Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins: Comment. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112442V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary In an article published in the American Economic Review, Dorothe Bonjour et al. (2003) used a dataset on female monozygotic twins and showed that the within-twin estimated return to one year of education was 7.7 percent and statistically significant at the 5 percent level. This comment illustrates that the point estimate conclusion is driven by one twin pair, which is an outlier in the dataset. If one eliminates this twin pair, then the estimated return to education is 5.1 percent and statistically significant at the 10 percent level only. (JEL I21, J16, J24, J31)

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JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I21 Analysis of Education
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials


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