Birth weight and schooling and earnings: estimates from a sample of twins
| dc.contributor.author | Miller, Paul | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mulvey, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Martin, N. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T15:38:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T15:38:37Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2014-10-28T02:23:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Miller, P. and Mulvey, C. and Martin, N. 2005. Birth weight and schooling and earnings: estimates from a sample of twins. Economics Letters. 86 (3): pp. 387-392. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48282 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.econlet.2004.10.002 | |
| dc.description.abstract |
Based on analysis of a sample of twins, this study suggests that birth weight is not related to levels of schooling, that it plays only a minor role in the determination of earnings, and that ability differences that are not removed in the within-twins model of earnings are not biasing the results in twins studies such as Ashenfelter and Krueger [Ashenfelter, O., Krueger, A., 1994. Estimates of the economic return to schooling from a new sample of twins, American Economic Review, 84(5) pp. 1157–1173]. | |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
| dc.title | Birth weight and schooling and earnings: estimates from a sample of twins | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| dcterms.source.volume | 86 | |
| dcterms.source.number | 3 | |
| dcterms.source.startPage | 387 | |
| dcterms.source.endPage | 392 | |
| dcterms.source.issn | 0165-1765 | |
| dcterms.source.title | Economics Letters | |
| curtin.accessStatus | Fulltext not available |