The Implications of Demographic-Specific Inflation Rates for Trends in Real Educational Wage Differentials
利用消费者支出调查数据，构建不同教育水平人群的特定价格指数，发现1970-80年代初通胀率随教育水平递减，使用教育特定价格指数后实际教育工资差异比名义差异扩大更多，其中燃料和能源消费差异是主要因素。
We use data from consumer expenditure surveys to investigate the impact on trends in real wage differentials of using group-specific price indexes. We find that inflation rates decrease monoton-ically with the education of the household head throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, and real educational wage differentials, calculated using education-specific price indexes, widened somewhat more than nominal differentials. We also find that differences by education level in fuel and energy consumption, whose relative prices increased during the 1970s, account for the majority of the educational index differences.