Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the uk: models, methods and results from the ncds

@article{Blundell2003EvaluatingTI, title={Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: models, methods and results from the NCDS}, author={Richard Blundell and Lorraine Dearden and Barbara Sianesi}, journal={LSE Research Online Documents on Economics}, year={2003} }

Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on individual earnings are reviewed for single treatment and sequential multiple treatments with and without heterogeneous returns. The sensitivity of the estimates once applied to a common dataset is then explored. We show the importance of correcting for detailed test score and family background differences and of allowing for (observable) heterogeneity in returns. We find an… 

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