Estimating Marginal Returns to Higher Education in the UK

Robert Moffitt

NBER Working Paper No. 13534
Issued in October 2007

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The author would like to thank Marc Chan for research assistance and Lorraine Dearden for generous help in obtaining and using the data. Comments from Joshua Angrist, James Heckman, Guido Imbens, Matthew White, Tiemen Woutersen, and participants at workshops at several universities, research institutes, and conferences are appreciated, as well as comments from two anonymous referees, Thierry Magnac, and other participants at the "Conference on Econometric Evaluation of Public Policies: Methods and Applications," Paris, December, 2005 on an earlier closely related paper. The author also thanks Steffen Reinhold for correcting two errors in the Appendix. Research support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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