Cygan-Rehm K (2021)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2021
DOI: 10.1002/jae.2854
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.
APA:
Cygan-Rehm, K. (2021). Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? A reassessment. Journal of Applied Econometrics. https://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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