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Applied Economics Letters Volume 4, 1997 - Issue 12
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Evidence on the effect of young adults' wages on their college attendance decisions

Mahdy Mohanty Department of Economics and Statistics, California State University-Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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Miles Finney Department of Economics and Statistics, California State University-Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
Pages 733-735 | Received 26 Sep 1996, Published online: 02 Nov 2006
 
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Abstract

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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