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Author: Lee, Lung-Fei
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1. Trost, Robert P.
Lee, Lung-Fei
Technical Training and Earnings: A Polychotomous Choice Model with Selectivity
Review of Economics and Statistics 66,1 (February 1984): 151-156.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1924708
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keyword(s): Educational Returns; Schooling; Vocational Education; Wages

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This paper presents a model with polychotomous choices and selectivity and then applies it to the problem of estimating the returns to technical school training. Using the NLS of Young Men, the paper finds evidence of self-selectivity in the high school wage equation and estimates the wage effect of technical school to be a $1. 27 per hour increase in wages. This amounts to an estimated rate of return of 9 to 11. 2%, which is slightly higher than estimates obtained by others. Without corrections for selectivity bias, the rate of return is underestimated by 6%.
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Trost, Robert P. and Lung-Fei Lee. "Technical Training and Earnings: A Polychotomous Choice Model with Selectivity." Review of Economics and Statistics 66,1 (February 1984): 151-156.