10-075/3 - Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis

• Authors
  Lennart Hoogerheide, Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Joern H. Block, CASBEC, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany; Roy Thurik, CASBEC, Erasmus University Rotterdam, EIM Business and Policy Research, Zoetermeer, and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany
• Publication date
  August 2, 2010

• Keywords
  education; family background variables; earnings; income; instrumental variables; Bayesian analysis
• JEL
  C11, C13, C15, J24, J30