@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp2407, author={Klein, Roger and Vella, Francis}, title={Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions for Australian Workers via Conditional Second Moments}, year={2006}, month={Oct}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={2407}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2407}, abstract={This paper employs conditional second moments to identify the impact of education in wage regressions where education is treated as endogenous. This approach avoids the use of instrumental variables in a setting where instruments are frequently not available. We employ this methodology to estimate the returns to schooling for a sample of Australian workers. We find that accounting for the endogeneity of education in this manner increases the estimated return to education from 6 percent to 10 percent.}, keywords={endogeneity;returns to schooling;heteroskedasticity}, }