Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? A reassessment

Cygan-Rehm K (2021)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Journal

Journal of Applied Econometrics Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592–598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding is sensitive to minor changes in sample restrictions and model specification. Further results suggest that their estimates are potentially confounded by previously unconsidered institutional details. These findings render the conclusion that compulsory schooling in Germany yields no wage returns at a minimum controversial.

Authors with CRIS profile

Kamila Cygan-Rehm Lehrstuhl für Statistik und empirische Wirtschaftsforschung

How to cite

APA:

Cygan-Rehm, K. (2021). Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? A reassessment. Journal of Applied Econometrics. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jae.2854

MLA:

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila. "Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? A reassessment." Journal of Applied Econometrics (2021).

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