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Title: Evidence on the Effect of Young Adults' Wages on their College Attendance Decisions
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1. Mohanty, Madhu Sudan
Finney, Miles M.
Evidence on the Effect of Young Adults' Wages on their College Attendance Decisions
Applied Economics Letters 4,12 (December 1997): 733-735.
Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/758528717
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Routledge ==> Taylor & Francis (1998)
Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Employment, Youth; Wages, Youth

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this note demonstrates that the college attendance decision of employed young adults depends partly on their wage. We further find that the wage quadratically impacts the decision to attend college.
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Mohanty, Madhu Sudan and Miles M. Finney. "Evidence on the Effect of Young Adults' Wages on their College Attendance Decisions." Applied Economics Letters 4,12 (December 1997): 733-735.