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Controlling for Personal Characteristics, School and Community Characteristics, and High School Curriculum when Estimating the Return to Education. Technical Paper Series.

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Altonji, Joseph G. – 1990

This paper examines whether failure to control for family background, aptitude, high school quality, high school curriculum, and community characteristics leads to bias in estimates of the economic return resulting from postsecondary education. High school specific fixed effects were used to control for all observed and unobserved characteristics…

Descriptors: College Bound Students, Community Characteristics, Data Analysis, Educational Benefits