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Tracking the returns to education in the 1990s: bridging the gap between the new and old Current Population Survey education items.

The Current Population Survey (CPS) is used for many studies examining trends in the returns to education. The CPS changed its education item in 1992. This paper develops adjustment factors for earnings at different education levels to make pre- and post-1992 earnings comparable. To accomplish this,...

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Published in:Journal of Human Resources Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 629 - 642
Main Authors: Frazis, Harley, Stewart, Jay
Format: Article
Published: University of Wisconsin Press Summer99
Subjects:
Education & economics
Social surveys > Methodology
Educational attainment
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