Reconciling the Old and New Census Bureau Education Questions: Recommendations for Researchers
利用1991和1992年3月当前人口调查的匹配样本，探讨如何调和人口普查局从教育年限到学位获得的教育问题变化，并检验不同方法对教育回报率估计的影响。
Abstract Beginning with the 1990 Census and the January 1992 Current Population Survey (CPS), the Bureau of the Census changed the emphasis of its educational-attainment question from years of education to degree receipt. Using a matched sample from the 1991 and 1992 March CPS, this article addresses how to reconcile the old and new questions. The effects of those methods on the estimated return(s) to education are then examined. Both the estimated linear return and the estimated college–high-school wage differential are slightly larger using information from the new question. KEY WORDS: Current Population SurveyReturn to educationU.S. CensusWage equations